Dear Daniel, the smoothing is still necessary and not included in the batch. Regards, Christian On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:54:03 +0000, Daniel Ferreira <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Dear all, > >I would really apreciate if you could give me some clues about Processing Longitudinal Data with VBM8 toolbox. I have not found information about the whole pipeline neither in the VBM8 tutorial nor this SPM list. > >I am trying to run a Longitudinal study. VBM8 includes eight steps (realign 1 and 2, Intra-subject bias correction, estimate and write 1 and 2, realign-estimate, apply deformations and move-delete files). Do I have to run the 8 steps? How it really works? > >Is a smoothing step included in this batch or it has to be performed after the pipeline? > >thank you very much in advance > >Daniel Ferreira >[log in to unmask] >University of La Laguna, SPAIN