BrainVoyager Overview for Brain Imaging Workshop 12/10/03
(http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/~greischar)

Version 4.9 for Windows only (One network license at Keck and one at Brodgen)

Input formats:  ANALYZE, DICOM, GE (I-files or .sdt output from epirecon), User defined for pretty much any binary file.

BV can be scripted using Perl, VBA, Java, even Matlab.

BV creates its own internal formatted fMRI  (.fmr) and anatomical (.vmr) data sets.
    It wants a power of 2 number of slices in your fMRI data.
    If your fMRI data is sagittal not all display options are available.
    It requires the source data to physically be in the BV working directory.
    fMRI and anatomical images are not automatically aligned using header data.

BV uses fairly standard 2D and 3D processing   
    3D rigid body (6 parameter) motion correction to arbitrary volume (default first volume and scripting only allows default)
    Transformation to Tailarach coordinates using AC,PC alignment, then points AC,PC,AP,PP,IP,SP,LP,RP much like AFNI.
    Creates 3D volume time course .vtc file using 2D-3D, AC-PC, and Tailarach transfomations.
    Gaussian spatial and temporal filtering.
    General linear modeling (GLM)
    No simple ability to export statistical maps (e.g. Analyze format)

BV also includes:
    Independent component analysis
    Automatic segmentation, cortex surface inflations and unfolding (flat maps)

Recently released multi-platform BV QX
    Unix, Linux, MacOSX, Windows (only able to get MacOSX and Windows versions running)
    Written using Qt C/C++ so now only supports QSA scripting
    Supposed to  support non-power of 2 number of slices and sagittally acquired data