It smooths the images in memory to make the estimation part of the
realignment work better.
Best regards,
-John
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:01 -0500, Nicole Long wrote:
> Hi list,
> I'm using SPM5 to do preprocessing, and I've noticed that there is a
> smoothing parameter under the estimation options during realignment.
> The general help says it's "applied to the images before estimating
> the realignment parameters". Is this doing the same thing as the
> "smooth" step (e.g. slice timing, realign, normalize, smooth), and if
> so, why has it been integrated with realignment?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nicole
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