SVT 5.2 Acknowledgments

The owners and developers of the SVT software are grateful to Dr. David Rottenberg, Dr. Stephen Strother, Kirt Schaper and Jon Anderson at PET Imaging Service at the VAMC, Minneapolis, MN, for providing support, encouragement and data. Jenaro Felix and Linda Lee, at the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA, have been actively involved in creating the SVT manual and in validating SVT.

Prof. Jack Quine in the Department of Mathematics of FSU has helped with some handy tricks regarding bi-linear quadratic forms, which were used to prove the validity of the covariogram models adopted in the SVT methodology. Also, Prof. Fred Huffer and Prof. Xufeng Niu at the Statistics department of FSU have given many constructive recommendations and feedback in regard to the statistical part of this package. Funding and support for the development and documentation of the SVT software came from NIH, NSF, BWF, FSU and other organizations and grants.

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