OK, this isn’t a John email, but rather a tip of my own that uses one of John’s functions. When preparing a manuscript you often want to display a “blobs on brain” image, where a reference image underlies a colored significance image. You can do this within the SPM Results facility, but since you never get a figure right the first time, I prefer to do it on the command line.

The code snippet blow scriptizes the blobs-on-brain figure. You’ll get a large orthgonal viewer in the graphics window, so it’s then easy to print (or grab a screen snapshot) to then create your figure.

% Make sure to first clear the graphics window

% Select images
Pbck = spm_get(1,'*.img','Select background image')
Psta = spm_get(1,'*.img','Select statistic image')

% Set the threshold value
Th   = 4;  

% Create a new image where all voxels below Th have value NaN
PstaTh = [spm_str_manip(Psta,'s') 'Th'];
spm_imcalc_ui(Psta,PstaTh,'i1+(0./(i1>=Th))',{[],[],spm_type('float')},Th);

% Display!
spm_orthviews('image',Pbck,[0.05 0.05 0.9 0.9]);
spm_orthviews('addimage',1,PstaTh)

% Possibly, set the crosshairs to your favorite location
spm_orthviews('reposition',[0 -10 10])

                

This assumes that you just want to threshold your image based on a single intensity threshold. To make it totally scripted, replace the spm_get calls with hard assignments.