To SPM users:
I am a summer student in the Neurotesting Unit of the National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke. For my research project I am to perform a
VBM analysis of ALS and PLS patients and normal control MPRAGE (T1 weighted)
neuroimage data. We would like to compare ALS and PLS, ALS and healthy
controls, and PLS and healthy controls and also correlate the data to
clinical scores. For the past few weeks I have been acquainting myself to
the literature on VBM and our laboratory has decided to use SMP8 to carry
out the VBM analysis. There are several tutorials on performing VBM with the
older versions of SPM, but it appears that there is not as much
instructional assistance with VBM in SPM8. I am looking for a
"point-and-click" tutorial (or something similar for a complete novice) that
illustrates how to perform VBM in SPM8 using DARTEL or other program tools,
including the necessary pre-processing registration steps and
post-processing statistical analysis. There is a tutorial at this site
(http://keck.ucsf.edu/~schenk/SPM5Tutorial/) for SPM5 but it is unclear as
to where the data for the statistical analysis was retrieved. I appreciate
any assistance you can provide in this matter. Thank you for your generous time.
Kind regards,
Aaron J. Shapiro
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