Hi,
I have a followup to the response below concerning scaling the PEs to
account for the amplitude of the columns in the design.mat.
Namely, if FILM has run correction for auto-correlations, then isn't
there technically a different design matrix for every voxel? So wouldn't
the PE corrections would need to be voxel-wise? But there is only one
design.mat written out, implying global auto-correlation correction.
What is the right way to re-scale the PEs?
Thanks,
Mark.
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 01:26:31 +0000, Stephen Smith
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>Hi - in order to interpret the absolute size of estimated PE values, you
>need to first multiply them by the peak-to-peak height in the model
(i.e.,
>look inside design.mat) - after doing this, regardless of the
convolution
>type, you know the fitted peak-to-peak height. In none of this, at this
>point, are things normalised into percentages (etc.).
>
>Cheers, Steve
>
>
>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Ramapriyan Pratiwadi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We recently ran an analysis using the FIR basis set, rather than
the the
>> double-gamma HRF. To our surpise, the range of values for the
pe images
>> were much much lower than expected; in fact, they look like
percent
>> signal change. And when the betas for the basis set were
graphed, they
>> indeed looked like a typical HRF.
>>
>> Do the pe images need to be scaled in some way, or are they
already in
>> percent deviation from baseline.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ram
>>
>>
>>
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>> Ram Pratiwadi
>> Research Assistant
>> University of Pennsylvania, Brain Behavior Laboratory
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