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% Author: Wenjin Chen, Eugenia Xu
% Date: 2013/08/01
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% The software utilized open source modules published by:
%  Yair M. Altman: altmany(at)gmail.com
% and by
%  CREATIS laboratory, Lyon, France. olivier.bernard@creatis.insa-lyon.fr
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