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Dear Melanie,

Thank you very much, this is super helpful.

Can I ask you, how did you find out that the dependencies stay with the
first? I was trying to look in the script, but there is no clear indication
to that (at least not that I found).

Best regards,

David

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Canterberry, Melanie <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> David – I tried this recently. If you just replicate the original one, the
> dependencies will stay with the first one instead of carrying over. To
> avoid the confusion of dependencies, I would suggest creating 10 separate
> batch files with your template, then loading them all at once, rather than
> replicating them all into one batch.****
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> Melanie ****
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> *From:* SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On
> Behalf Of *David ro
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:53 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* [SPM] dependencies in the preprocessing batch****
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> Hello SPMers,****
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> I have a question about the use of dependencies in preprocessing analysis
> batch. ****
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> Specifically, I would like to use 3 different modules - spatial (realign &
> unwarp); normalise (estimate and write); and Smoothing. ****
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> I have 10 subjects. So what I like to do is to create a combination of the
> 3 modules as a template, and define in advance the depedencies between the
> modules (e.g., for "estimate and write), source image needs to be defined
> using dependency to the previous module o frealighn and unwrap). ****
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> Then I'd like to replicate this 3 combined modules 10 times, and then
> simply insert the data for all the subjects.****
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> My question is as follow: does the dependency that I've defined to the
> template is going to be replicated (such that, for example, the "realign
> and unwrap" of subject 5 will be connected to the "normalised" of subject
> 5), OR - all the dependencies are going to be connected to the first module
> (which will be subject 1)? Obviously, the first option is the desired one,
> and the second the problematic one. ****
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> Thanks in advance for your help,****
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> David Ro.****
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