One of the new features of BrainVoyager QX 1.8 is the “GroupDataSimulator” plugin allowing to easily generate simulated multi-subject data for various experimental designs. For as many subjects as desired, the simulator generates functional data (VTC files), protocol and design matrix files. Why would one want to generate artificial data?
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I feel very grateful when looking back to the events of this year’s summer: It started with the OHBM conference in Florence and the BrainVoyager 10th anniversary party where the winners of the first BrainVoyager Design Awards were announced. Then there was the exciting Football World Cup in Germany, which made especially my Italian friends very happy :-). This was followed...
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I can hardly believe that already 10 years have passed since I compiled version 1.0 of BrainVoyager! The first build is from June 12 1996 (see above) with an executable name of “BrainVoy.exe”. While Windows 95 allowed using longer file names, it was advisable at that time to use the “8.3” naming scheme to stay compatible with Windows 3.1 and DOS.
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It feels already strange that I often travelled with two laptops, one running Windows XP and one running Mac OS X. Thanks to Apple’s switch to the Intel platform and their support to run Windows XP, this “double load” is no longer necessary. At first it felt strange to use a stylish Apple MacBook Pro as my main Windows laptop…
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Completion of BrainVoyager QX 1.7 took somewhat longer than expected. The reason was that I decided to make a number of important additions and changes to allow performing high-quality segmentations…
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I am happy to be able to continue my blog. I was more than two weeks very sick due to an aggressive cocktail of viruses and bacteria in my body. It started with a trip to Israel where I participated at a very nice conference.
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Event-related averaging is an important tool in order to obtain the fMRI response profile of different conditions in a single voxel or a larger region-of-interest (ROI).
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Today I got a new computer - an Apple iMac. What is so special about this machine? It is the first computer from Apple, which runs on an Intel chip. The announcement last summer…
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I am currently working on BrainVoyager QX 1.7, which is expected to be available in a few weeks. One of the main new features of BV QX 1.7 will be the possibility to perform cortex thickness analysis…
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The idea behind this blog is to let you participate closely in the development process behind BrainVoyager QX and related software products. I will talk about ongoing work…
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