Dear SPM users,

Although Caret and the Colin atlas can indeed be used for visualizing 
SPM group fMRI results (as noted in Dr. Rutschmann's email below), we 
now strongly encourage brain-mappers to convert to the new PALS 
(Population-Average, Landmark- and Surface-based) atlas for this and 
many other purposes.  The primary reason is that PALS provides the 
advantages of surface visualization while avoiding the pitfalls of using 
any particular individual as a target.   The details are spelled out in:

Van Essen, D.C. (2005) A population-average, landmark- and surface-based 
(PALS) atlas of human cerebral cortex. NeuroImage (in press).
Preprint: http://brainmap.wustl.edu/resources/-PALS_ATLAS_June14_05.pdf

An extensive PALS atlas tutorial is available at:
http://sumsdb.wustl.edu:8081/sums/directory.do?dir_id=6332260
This includes the atlas data sets plus tutorial documents for both 
online (WebCaret) and offline (Caret) versions.

For offline analysis you will need Caret version 5.3:
http://brainmap.wustl.edu/resources/caretnew.html

Caret 5.3 runs on these platforms:  Macintosh OSX (10.2 or higher), 
Microsoft Windows (2000 or XP), and Linux (tested on Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux AS release 3 Taroon Update 5)

It is worth noting that the Caret distribution's 
data_files/fmri_mapping_files subdirectory contains left and right 
hemisphere surfaces for all twelve PALS_B12 subjects normalized to 
various stereotaxic spaces using popular methods.  There also are 
'average fiducial' surfaces for these spaces (e.g., for reporting 3D 
coordinates in the corresponding stereotaxic space).

Questions about Caret should be directed to the Caret Users mailing 
list: http://brainmap.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users.

Sincerely,

David C. Van Essen
John Harwell
Donna Hanlon
James Dickson

On 07/12/2005 06:39 AM, Roland Marcus Rutschmann wrote:

>On Tuesday 12 July 2005 03:07, Wang, Bo wrote:
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>>Dear Users,
>>
>>    Is that possible to visualize SPM results on an unfolded cortical
>>surface like FreeSurfer could do?
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>caret is also doing an excellent job in visualizing individual and/or group 
>results on the colin surface.
>
>http://brainvis.wustl.edu/
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>Regards,
>
>Roland
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