About CAT
This toolbox is an extension to SPM (Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL) to provide computational anatomy. This covers diverse morphometric methods such as voxel-based morphometry (VBM), surface-based morphometry (SBM), deformation-based morphometry (DBM), and ROI- or label-based morphometry. It is developed by Christian Gaser and Robert Dahnke (Jena University Hospital, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology) and is free but copyrighted software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version. If you use any CAT code for commercial applications, please send a mail.
This documentation contains interactive MATLAB links that open SPM and CAT tools, e.g. to display ROIs like the LPBA40 volume map. You can open the manual at any time from the CAT window: Tools → Help → Interactive Manual.
Citation
Please cite our papers and the work of other researchers if you use this software. Our main paper is:
Gaser C, Dahnke R, Thompson PM, Kurth F, Luders E, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (2024). CAT: a computational anatomy toolbox for the analysis of structural MRI data. GigaScience 13, giae049.