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1.1.1 Document Organization

This guide is organized as follows:

  • In the Introduction, a brief overview of the software is given, system requirements to run the software are explained, and the preliminary steps for software installation are described.
  • In Software Overview, we describe the functionalities of the software; i.e. a complete list and explanations of what you can do with it.
  • In Usage, the instructions on how to use the software are given first. Because DIFF_PREP is a registration software, it may require many settings to be tuned for specific cases. Even though the DIFF_PREP software is automated at its best, it will not perform well with some data. Additionally, the user might want to perform some operations and avoid some others during registration. The sections Registration Settings and Optimization Settings go over the parameters to handle these cases. The last section of this chapter describes the properties and usage of some extra programs that are very helpful when used along with DIFF_PREP.