> When creating a stripped template, there's a final smoothing step.
>
> Should one then mask out voxels in the smoothed result which are zero
> before smoothing?
No.
>
> I think not. SPM's spatial normalization algorithm will smooth a stripped
> source image and not perform this masking, so one should not apply it
> during template creation.
>
> Thoughts?
Skill-strip the individual images before averaging and smoothing.
Best regards,
-John
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