BACKGROUND:

This code was developed at Mayo Clinic, 
as a batch system for vbm pre-processing tasks in SPM2.
A major feature that is disabled is the ability to use Sun Grid Engine (SGE)

In order to use SGE mode, you must have SGE running in your lab, and 
you must uncomment a few lines (type help vbm for more info).

SGE will allow for distributing processing tasks to multiple CPU's
simultaneously, thereby reducing the overall processing time when 
working with large datasets.

USAGE: 

This code requires SPM2, which can be downoloded at:

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm2/

If you have already installed SPM2:

-Make sure the vbm-utils/ folder is on your matlab path.

- type vbm at your matlab prompt.
- type help vbm for more information.

REFERENCE:

I put a fair amount of work into this code, so please reference 
the following paper when using this code in publications.

Senjem ML, Gunter JL, Shiung MM, Petersen RC, Jack CR Jr., "Comparison of different methodological implementations of voxel-based
morphometry in neurodegenerative disease." Neuroimage. 2005 Jun;26(2):600-8. 


PROGRAMMER:

last release Jan. 10, 2006
Matthew L. Senjem
Mayo Clinic 
Senjem.Matthew1@mayo.edu

