We recently developed custom software to analyze fMRI data for children
with FraX syndrome, ADHD, Williams syndrome and other developmental
disabilities as part of the work in the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain
Science Research in the Stanford School of Medicine. These children can
move quite a bit during an fMRI scan session, so the methods may be useful
for other applications.
The software is designed to improve the accuracy of fMRI estimation for
data from high motion clinical subjects. The repairs work best for cases
when there are intervals of good data with intermittent patches of bad
data. Tests have shown good improvements (up to twice the accuracy in
estimation) for cases with sporadic motion up to 5 mm, and more than 30%
bad scans.
The software is compatible with SPM2, and is downloadable from:
http://cibsr.stanford.edu/tools/ArtRepair.htm.
Sorry, it is not yet compatible with SPM5.
- Paul
Paul K. Mazaika, PhD
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research
Stanford University School of Medicine
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