I've updated my website http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/matthias.reimold/mascoi with a new version of MASCOI. Besides a small bug that is now corrected (see below), I haven't received any bug reports for half a year now, so I am releasing Version 2.1 final (no beta status anymore).

Changes since V2.1b:

- after loading another t-map, the filename displayed at the upper left of the window is now correctly updated (this was a bug)

- There's now a "select all" / "unselect all" command in the MenuBar. This function is particularly helpful on slower machines, where clicking on each row may take quite some time

Mascoi is an SPM-toolbox that can be used to browse the results of an SPM analysis, to explore atlas labels and to create bitmaps for publication. In particular, mascoi offers a side-by-side comparison of traditionally thresholded t-maps and "masked contrast images", created with a previously published algorithm. I recommend using masked contrast images for documentation for the following reasons:

- peak coordinates are anatomically more precise, particularly if images were smoothed (between-subject comparison, PET, VBM)

- colorcodes reflect the "signal" itself instead of the "signal-to-noise" ratio. Particularly if there is no doubt about the statistical significance of a finding, one might be interested in an outcome measure that is independent from the local noise.

give it a try...

Your sincerely,

Matthias Reimold

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Dr. med. Matthias Reimold

Dept. of Nuclear Medicine and PET-Center

Röntgenweg 15

72076 Tübingen

Tel.: +49 7071 29 86406 or 87681

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FAX: +49 7071 29 5264

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