XBAM is the fMRI analysis package developped by the Brain Image Analysis Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry.

XBAM is being developed by Mick Brammer and Vincent Giampietro.

XBAM runs on most Unix/Linux based system. It has been successfully compiled and tested on Solaris, RedHat, Centos, Suse, Mandrake, Mac OS X and Windows (using Cygwin).

XBAM has been fully tested in 32bit and 64bit modes, the latter being the default compilation mode (-m64).

Click here to get a summary of the XBAM methods as well as the relevant references.

You will find a step-by-step XBAM_v4 tutorial in the XBAM_v4/docs folder and you can download a little test dataset here.

You can find more XBAM documentation in our XBAM Support page.

The latest stable version is XBAM_v4.1 released on the 10th January 2011.

Follow these steps to install XBAM on your system:

1. Download the latest compressed version which takes ~ 54 MB of disk space
   
   

   Enter password

   Please contact Vincent Giampietro to obtain the current password.
   
   Don't worry about this, it is simply for us to know who is using the software.
   
   Please note that you have to click on the Download button to get the software, pressing Return will not work.
   
   
   
2. In a terminal window, change directory to the folder in which you have downloaded the XBAM file.
   
   
   
3. Uncompress and untar the files by typing:
   tar xvfz XBAM_v4.1_10th_January_2011.tar.gz
   Please note that the uncompressed distribution takes ~ 420 MB of disk space.
   
   
   
4. Go inside the XBAM directory by typing:
   cd XBAM_v4.1
   
   
   
5. Install the files by typing:
   ./install.csh
   Please note that the compiled distribution takes around ~ 440 MB of disk space.
   
   Important: you need to have a working C/C++ compiler and the X11 development libraries
   
   
   
6. The program is started by running the XBAM_v4.1 script located in the XBAM_v4.1 folder. For example, if you have installed the XBAM_v4.1 distribution in /home/tomjones, start the program by typing:
   /home/tomjones/XBAM_v4.1/XBAM_v4.1
   
   
   
7. To be able to start XBAM_v4.1 from anywhere without specifying the full path of the program, create an alias in your shell configuration file. For example if you are using csh or tcsh as your login shell, add the following line at the end of your ~/.cshrc file:
   alias XBAM_v4.1 /home/tomjones/XBAM_v4.1/XBAM_v4.1
   
   

No installation problems have been reported with the current version