SSIM for single channel ?

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I saw on opencv.org there is SSIM evaluation:

Scalar getMSSIM( const Mat& i1, const Mat& i2)
{
 const double C1 = 6.5025, C2 = 58.5225;
 /***************************** INITS **********************************/
 int d     = CV_32F;

 Mat I1, I2;
 i1.convertTo(I1, d);           // cannot calculate on one byte large values
 i2.convertTo(I2, d);

 Mat I2_2   = I2.mul(I2);        // I2^2
 Mat I1_2   = I1.mul(I1);        // I1^2
 Mat I1_I2  = I1.mul(I2);        // I1 * I2

 /***********************PRELIMINARY COMPUTING ******************************/

 Mat mu1, mu2;   //
 GaussianBlur(I1, mu1, Size(11, 11), 1.5);
 GaussianBlur(I2, mu2, Size(11, 11), 1.5);

 Mat mu1_2   =   mu1.mul(mu1);
 Mat mu2_2   =   mu2.mul(mu2);
 Mat mu1_mu2 =   mu1.mul(mu2);

 Mat sigma1_2, sigma2_2, sigma12;

 GaussianBlur(I1_2, sigma1_2, Size(11, 11), 1.5);
 sigma1_2 -= mu1_2;

 GaussianBlur(I2_2, sigma2_2, Size(11, 11), 1.5);
 sigma2_2 -= mu2_2;

 GaussianBlur(I1_I2, sigma12, Size(11, 11), 1.5);
 sigma12 -= mu1_mu2;

 ///////////////////////////////// FORMULA ////////////////////////////////
 Mat t1, t2, t3;

 t1 = 2 * mu1_mu2 + C1;
 t2 = 2 * sigma12 + C2;
 t3 = t1.mul(t2);              // t3 = ((2*mu1_mu2 + C1).*(2*sigma12 + C2))

 t1 = mu1_2 + mu2_2 + C1;
 t2 = sigma1_2 + sigma2_2 + C2;
 t1 = t1.mul(t2);               // t1 =((mu1_2 + mu2_2 + C1).*(sigma1_2 + sigma2_2 + C2))

 Mat ssim_map;
 divide(t3, t1, ssim_map);      // ssim_map =  t3./t1;

 Scalar mssim = mean( ssim_map ); // mssim = average of ssim map
 return mssim;
}

How would be possible to use this function for single channel images ?