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This article is the central page where important changes to the wiki and its contents (guides, tutorials, articles, but also downloadable scripts) will be documented. So, if you're using a script you downloaded from the wiki, please regularly check this page to see whether you might need an updated version.

Older entries will be removed after some months, but can of course be viewed via the wiki's history function.

Contents 1 Added wiki articles and documents 2 Updated articles 3 Added scripts/downloads 4 Updated scripts/downloads

Added wiki articles and documents

• 04/09/2008 NIfTI & GIfTI page, page with information about NIfTI and GIfTI in BrainVoyager QX. Status, plans etc.
• 03/13/2008 Granger Causality Mapping in BrainVoyager QX Getting Started Guide for Granger Causality Mapping (GCM) (by Pim Pullens).
• 03/11/2008 Random effects, VOIs, creating masks, several new documents on statistics by Armin Heinecke.
• 01/29/2008 Statistics in BrainVoyager QX, page with documentation on statistical topics and BrainVoyager QX.
• 08/26/2007 BVQXtools step-by-step VMR cleaning, experimental way to clean/peel a VMR with BVQXtools (by Jochen Weber)
• 08/15/2007 Debugging plugins in VS8, debugging a plugin in Visual Studio 2005 (see 'Other guides').
• 03/23/2007 Plugins on Mac OS X, Compiling your plugin on Mac OS X for Visual Studio users.
• 03/14/2007 Mac OS X specific issues, BrainVoyager QX on Mac OS X - start of document on Mac specific issues, like the location of nethasp.ini file.
• 01/05/2007 HRF - meaning and calculation of the (assumed) HRF
• 12/14/2006 FAQ - Why does BVQX take so long to start?
• 12/13/2006 How to run a Multi Study GLM - a practical guide (by Jochen Seitz)
• 11/29/2006 Parametric modulation, how to use parametrically modulated predictors (by Fabrizio Esposito)
• 11/20/2006 BVQXtools code samples, some code samples for the BVQXtools
• 11/20/2006 External Measures How-to, putting external measures in first-level designs (by Fabrizio Esposito)
• 11/20/2006 Memory Requirements, the memory requirements of BVQX
• 11/20/2006 FDR, a short introduction into and description of FDR

Updated articles

• 01/16/2008 Wizard preview for functional batch processing v0.5.
• 01/15/2008 BVQX Scripting User's Guide, reference manual updated for QX 1.9.10.
• 10/22/2007 Mac OS X specific issues updated to 0.5, added topics on making screenshots, starting multiple instances of BVQX, etc.
• 10/22/2007 UFF file format, information about user defined format (*.uff)
• 8/23/2007 Overview of BVQX scripting and plugin functions, updated for QX 1.9.
• 7/17/2007 BVQXtools, reflecting new version (v0.7a), new BVQX v1.9 file formats and some more fixes
• 7/13/2007 Mac OS X specific issues updated from 0.3 to version 0.4, added topic on viewing hidden files.
• 6/19/2007 BVQXtools, reflecting new version (v0.6f), some more fixes, new formats, methods, and functions
• 6/14/2007 Mac OS X specific issues for BrainVoyager QX updated to version 0.2, including suggestions for dongle and program diagnostics.
• 2/7/2007 BVQXtools, reflecting new version (v0.6d), many fixes, new features, methods and functions
• 1/9/2007 HRF - adding MATLAB based calculations
• 12/20/2006 BVQXtools, reflecting new version (v0.6b), OLT, POI file formats, bug fixes
• 12/14/2006 BVQXtools, reflecting new version (v0.6a), transio description
• 12/4/2006 BVQXtools, reflecting new version (v0.5c)

Added scripts/downloads

• 08/13/08 GIfTI export plugin (v0.1) BrainVoyager plugin to export *.srf and *.mtc to GIfTI data format.
• 07/25/08 Workaround for DAT files Excel macro for saving table data from DAT files for BVQX 1.10.2.
• 05/29/2008 Compute positioning script Matlab script to compute Slice1/NCenterX/Y/Z, RowDir and ColDir from NIfTI files (by Hester).
• 01/20/2008 Create custom DMR wizard Wizard to create a DMR project with any type of parameters (by Pim).
• 7/26/2007 Random Effects of Conjunction vs Conjunction of Random Effects in BrainVoyager, PDF guide (created by Armin Heinecke)
• 5/1/2007 Makevoi, makevoi - a tool for generating anatomic region files (by Blaise)
• 4/2/2007 Added ConversionScriptsBVMLTal Scripts which convert coordinates of the following coordinate systems: BrainVoyager QX Internal (BVint) - BrainVoyager QX System (BVsys) - Talairach (Tal) - Matlab array indices of the 'area of functional data' (by Marleen Schippers & Luca Nanetti & Leonardo Cerliani)
• 2/20/2007 Added fileheaderviewer, plugin to print header information of FMR, VMR, VMP, VTC and NIfTI-1 files to the BrainVoyager QX Log tab or text file.
• 1/8/2007 Added Create VMRs wizard, wizard to create multiple VMR projects at a time.
• 1/8/2007 Added Quick VTC script, simple script to quickly create 3 VTC files in Talairach space.
• 12/15/2006 Added Batch processing wizard (script project) to create and preprocess multiple FMR projects and create multiple VTCs by creating text files with parameters that can be invoked at any time.
• 12/13/2006 Added How to run a Multi Study GLM.pdf, Multi study GLM documentation written by Jochen Seitz
• 11/17/2006 Added protocolgenerator, Presentation Log (*.log) to BrainVoyager stimulation protocol (*.prt) converter plugin (v0.3)
• 11/17/2006 Added surfacetool, plugin to change mesh colors, write SRF header to BrainVoyager QX Log tab or text file and convert between hex and decimals

Updated scripts/downloads

• 07/21/08 Updated protocolgenerator v0.7, end of interval for a condition can be generated based on Duration parameter in Presentation *.log file or on start of next 'Picture' or 'Sound' event.
• 04/22/2008 Updated Batch processing wizard to version 0.5. It is now possible to create and preprocess multiple functional data sets (FMRs) in one go. Also a nice VTC batch processing function is available.
• 04/12/2008 protocolgenerator v0.6, generates *.prt with conditions and intervals from Presentation Log file.
• 10/2/2007 anatabacus v0.2, rudimentary image processing tool
• 7/20/2007 BVQXtools v0.7a, stupid bug (transio disabled in BVQXfile) removed, please re-download
• 7/17/2007 BVQXtools v0.7a, BVQX v1.9 file formats and some more fixes
• 6/7/2007 Updated Batch processing wizard to version 0.4. Updated to proper visibilitity of extended Talairach box in function F1 while creating a parameter file for VTCs in TAL space and minor changes like VTC file names reflecting the space.
• 6/19/2007 BVQXtools v0.6f, again minor amendments and a few new things
• 6/4/2007 Updated Batch processing wizard to version 0.3. The documentation is extended with the new dialogs and some background information about preprocessing.
• 5/22/2007 Updated Batch processing wizard to version 0.2. Here is a text file describing the changes from version 0.1 to 0.2.
• 3/21/2007 surfacetool v0.2, added compilation and makefile for Mac OS 10.4.9.
• 3/20/2007 protocolgenerator v0.5, reads now also Presentation log files with a 'Subject' column and extra rows at the bottom of the file.
• 3/2/2007 BVQXtools v0.6e, rather minor amendments and additions
• 2/7/2007 BVQXtools v0.6d, many fixes, new features, methods and functions