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Dear all,

We are carrying out a PET analysis in SPM. When we do the second level
analysis we apply a binary mask in MNI space to avoid the signal from the
skull and the peripheral CSF, however the second level analysis shows a
problematic signal in the ventricles which the mask is not able to avoid.

The other question is about segmentation. Could the segmentation of GM and
WM only (w/o CSF) avoid the signal into the ventricles in the second level
analysis or is it only useful for the normalisation process? In other
words, can segmentation act as a mask?

Does anyone have any ideas of how to solve this, either by creating a more
defined mask that excludes the ventricles or by modifying the pipeline?

Any help would be appreciated,

Best regards,
Adriana Roca.