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%  \__ \ )___/ )    (   Statistical Parametric Mapping
%  (___/(__)  (_/\/\_)  SPM -  http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
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%                               R E A D M E
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% This README gives a brief introduction to the SPM software.
% Full details can be found on the SPM website:
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%                      http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
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% See also Contents.m, AUTHORS.txt and LICENCE.txt.
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%                                                                       SPM
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%     Statistical Parametric Mapping refers to the construction and
%     assessment of spatially extended statistical process used to
%     test hypotheses about functional imaging data. These ideas have
%     been instantiated in software that is called SPM.
%     The SPM software package has been designed for the analysis of 
%     brain imaging data sequences. The sequences can be a series of 
%     images from different cohorts, or time-series from the same 
%     subject. The current release is designed for the analysis of
%     fMRI, PET, SPECT, EEG and MEG.
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% Please refer to this version as "SPM12" in papers and communications.
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% SPM was written to organise and interpret our data (at the Wellcome
% Trust Centre for Neuroimaging). The distributed version is the same as
% that we use ourselves.
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% SPM is made freely available to the [neuro]imaging community, to
% promote collaboration and a common analysis scheme across laboratories.
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%                                                                  Software
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% The SPM software is a suite of MATLAB functions, scripts and data files,
% with some externally compiled C routines, implementing Statistical
% Parametric Mapping.  MATLAB, a commercial engineering mathematics
% package, is required to use SPM.  MATLAB is produced by MathWorks,
% Natick, MA, USA. http://www.mathworks.com/
% SPM requires only core MATLAB to run (no special toolboxes are required).
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% SPM12 is written for MATLAB version 7.4 (R2007a) onwards under Windows,
% Linux and Mac (SPM12 will not work with versions of MATLAB prior to 7.4).
% Binaries of the external C-MEX routines are provided for Windows, Linux 
% and Mac. The source code is supplied and can be compiled with a C
% compiler (Makefile provided).
% See http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm12/ for details.
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% Later versions of MATLAB (released after SPM12), will probably need
% additional patches in order to run.  Once developed, these will be made
% available from:
%        http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/download/spm12_updates/
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% Although SPM12 will read image files from previous versions of SPM, there
% are differences in the algorithms, templates and models used.  Therefore,
% we recommend you use a single SPM version for any given project.
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% The SPM12 Release Notes can be found online: 
%              http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm12/
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%                                                               File format
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% SPM12 uses the NIFTI-1 data format as standard.  Take a look at
%                         http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/
% for more information on the NIFTI-1 file format.
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% The old SPM2 version of Analyze format can be read straight into SPM12,
% but results will be written out as NIFTI-1.  If you still use this
% format, then it is important that you ensure that spm_flip_analyze_images
% has been set appropriately for your data.
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% The MINC and ECAT7 formats can not be read straight into SPM12, although
% conversion utilities have been provided.  Similarly, a number of DICOM
% flavours can also be converted to NIFTI-1 using tools in SPM12.
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%                                                                 Resources
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% The SPM website is the central repository for SPM resources:
%                  http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
% Introductory material, installation details, documentation, course
% details and patches are published on the site.
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% There is an SPM eMail discussion list, hosted at <spm@jiscmail.ac.uk>.
% The list is monitored by the authors, and discusses theoretical,
% methodological and practical issues of Statistical Parametric Mapping
% and SPM. The SPM website has further details:
%                  http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/support/
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% Please report bugs to the authors at <fil.spm@ucl.ac.uk>.
% Peculiarities may actually be features, and should be raised on the SPM
% eMail discussion list, <spm@jiscmail.ac.uk>.
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%                                                                   Authors
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% SPM is developed under the auspices of Functional Imaging Laboratory
% (FIL), The Wellcome Trust Centre for NeuroImaging, in the Institute of
% Neurology at University College London (UCL), UK.
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% SPM94 was written primarily by Karl Friston in the first half of
% 1994, with assistance from John Ashburner (MRC-CU), Jon Heather
% (WDoIN), and Andrew Holmes (Department of Statistics, University of
% Glasgow). Subsequent development, under the direction of Prof. Karl
% Friston at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, has
% benefited from substantial input (technical and theoretical) from:
% John Ashburner (WDoIN), Andrew Holmes (WDoIN & Robertson Centre for
% Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Scotland), Jean-Baptiste Poline
% (WDoIN & CEA/DRM/SHFJ, Orsay, France), Christian Buechel (WDoIN),
% Matthew Brett (MRC-CBU, Cambridge, England), Chloe Hutton (WDoIN) and
% Keith Worsley (Department of Statistics, McGill University, Montreal,
% Canada).
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% See AUTHORS.txt for a complete list of SPM co-authors.
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% We would like to thank everyone who has provided feedback on SPM.
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%                                         Disclaimer, copyright & licencing
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% SPM (being the collection of files given in the manifest in the
% Contents.m file) is free but copyright software, distributed under the
% terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free 
% Software Foundation (either version 2, as given in file LICENCE.txt,
% or at your option, any later version). Further details on "copyleft" can
% be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/. In particular, SPM is supplied
% as is.  No formal support or maintenance is provided or implied.
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% % Copyright (C) 1991,1994-2014 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
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% $Id: README.txt 6223 2014-10-01 11:21:28Z guillaume $
