Topics: Introduction to SPM

Location: Ogura Lecture Hall (9th floor of the McMillan Building)

Homework:

• Make sure all data from ds000102 are downloaded and unzipped

• Make sure you can start SPM and load in an image to look at

• Practice basic command line operations (man, cd, pwd, ls, rm)

• Visually inspect all T1 images in dataset

• Advanced homework: read in a T1 image using Matlab and plot a histogram of the values

Helpful Readings:

Ashburner J (2012) SPM: A history. NeuroImage 62:791-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.025

Mechelli A, Price CJ, Friston KJ, Ashburner J (2005) Voxel-based morphometry of the human brain: Methods and applications. Current Medical Imaging Reviews 1:105-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573405054038726