Frequently Asked Questions

Installation

Errors when installing from pip because modules not available

Usually these problems are not related directly to Quantiphyse but involve dependencies which require specific versions of a module.

If you encounter these types of problems, you might want to try using conda instead of pip which we generally find is more reliable for packages which include native (i.e. non-Python) code. Instead of pip install try conda install for the packages which are causing trouble, then try pip install quantiphyse afterwards.

Error on startup after installing plugins

One known issue can be identified by starting quantiphyse from the command line. If it fails with an error message that ends as follows:

pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (deprecation 2.0.6 (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('deprecation<=2.*,>=1.*'), set(['fslpy']))

This can be fixed with:

pip install deprecation==1.2 --user

The cause is an apparently invalid requirements specification in a dependency package.

Running

On Windows the data viewer and graphs do not work properly

The symptoms of this problem include:

• The image viewer windows only update when you drag on them with the mouse
• Graph plots (e.g. in voxel analysis) do not appear

This seems to be an issue with PySide which affects the pyqtgraph library on Windows. We have found that installing PySide and pyqtgraph using conda rather than pip can help.

Fabber modelling widgets do not work (e.g. CEST/ASL/DCE/DSC)

These functions require an up to date version of Fabber. We expect FSL 6.0.1 to include sufficiently up to date versions of this code - this should be available very soon. If you can’t wait for this, please contact the maintainers and we will explain how to install an interim version which will work.

This does not affect the packages downloaded from the OUI Software Store which include prebuilt versions of Fabber and the required models.