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Installation

Installation instructions ?here.

System Requirements

Users must have a license for Matlab 7 or later.

Since Matlab is multi-platform software, the code should run on any computer.

All development and testing is performed using PC platforms running Windows XP and Linux distributions (essentially CentOS) and users are more likely to have success running BrainStorm in this environment.

Since many of the operations are computationally and memory intensive, particularly the BEM and FEM (boundary and finite element methods) calculations, we recommend a minimum of a 2.0GHz system with 1GB of RAM memory. We also include a number of routines for visualization of anatomical and functional data that will benefit from a powerful graphics card (256MB recommended).

Licensing & Copyright

Brainstorm is software written in MATLAB for the analysis and visualization of MEG and EEG data. We provide routines for computing forward models based on spherical and realistic boundary element methods. These latter require that you provide a tessellated representation of the brain, skull and scalp for use in these calculations. Inverse methods include dipole fitting based on the MUSIC scanning method and cortically constrained minimum norm imaging. We also include software for volumetric and surface rendering of inverse solutions. The methods implemented in this software are described in our publications, which can be accessed at ?http://neuroimage.usc.eduand in the ?Publications section of this website . We have provided a graphical user interface to our software, but all of the basic functions can be called from the command line and are ?documented at the BrainStorm website.

This software was generated primarily with support of grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH53213) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R01 EB000363). The project is a close collaboration between the Principal Investigator at USC, ?Richard M. Leahy, PhD, and his colleagues: John C. Mosher, PhD, (Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM) and Sylvain Baillet, PhD, (CNRS Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Laboratory, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France). Other contributors to the software are identified in the help files for the specific functions to which they contributed.

BrainStorm (which is the collection of files listed in the Contents.m file included with each distribution) is free but copyright software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. Further details on the GPL license can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. This license specifies terms and conditions for use, copying, distribution and modification of BrainStorm. Through the use of this software, users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the GPL license.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ITS COLLABORATORS DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NOR DO THEY ASSUME ANY LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Please note that while we have endeavored to make BrainStorm robust and easy to use, we are not professional programmers, nor do we have the resources to fully support this software. We have provided various levels of online tutorial and documentation and have also set up a

?FORUMfor registered users and developers to communicate. We will also periodically release updated code and documentation. While we will attempt to resolve serious issues that arise in the FORUM discussions, we cannot guarantee a response to specific questions nor are the individual authors of the software available to answer questions about the software.