Hi all
just a quick question about the howto#5 (thanks to the authors, very clear and useful!). Is it safe to apply the spatial smoothing after the percent normalization and before deconvolve? It is true that percent normalization is just a scaling process, but the factor is different for each voxel and with the subsequent spatial burring we are mixing up the resulting local effects of this voxelwise scaling... Would it be better to apply the smoothing before the percent scaling? (I guess it is not clear to me whether these two operators are fully commutable)
thanks!
giuseppe