Nicola,
We have found the "MRI Atlas of the Human Cerebellum" (Schmahmann, et
al., Academic Press 2000)useful for evaluation of cerebellar activation
in fMRI studies. I would encourage you and others to carefully evaluate
and report cerebellar findings, as you would for supratentorial
findings.
Rob
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Robert J. Ogg, Ph.D.
Division of Diagnostic Imaging
Department of Radiological Sciences
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
tel: 901.495.2502 fax: 901.495.4398
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On Behalf Of Nicola Pannacciulli
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:56 AM
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Subject: [SPM] VBM cerebellar findings
Dear SPM experts,
I would like to get your opinion about another VBM-related issue. As far
as I understood, there is no agreement in this field about whether
cerebellar results are reliable and, therefore, worth being reported or
not, due to incomplete coverage (see Marko Wilke et al, Psychiatry Res
2004, "Cerebellar regions of interests were discarded due to concerns of
possibly incomplete coverage in some subjects") or bad segmentation (I
seem to remember retrieving a paper where the Authors cut cerebellum off
the MRI anatomical images even before the preprocessing). Whereas,
several papers report and discuss also cerebellar findings. I would
deeply appreciate your opinion about this issue. Thank you very much in
advance for any help and assistance you are going to provide me with.
Best regards, Nicola Pannacciulli
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