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hi Andreas:

I read the slides you mentioned, the fMRI intro slides. To be honest to you, although it looks good, but I still dont quite get the experiment. Is there a paper detailedly discribe the experiment? 

Thanks

Xuelin

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----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Bartsch <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:13 pm
Subject: [FSL] AW: [FSL] AW: [FSL] how to relate each IC to different tasks?
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> Hi Xuelin,
> 
> why don't you start with 
> http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/lectures/intro1/mri_fmri_intro_slides.pdf , see page 49 in particular. Or join one of the next FSL courses. I know - it is a long trip from Hawaii but it may be worth it.
> Lets say you have a boxcar type of experiment (see page 42 of the 
> pdf), you can model this be a series of "0" and "1" entries. You 
> can simply take this vector and correlate with the t*.txt from 
> melodic's output. Alternatively, you may want to convolve your 
> expected response vector with a hemodynamic response function - 
> e.g. a synthetic like the double-gamma HRF or even an empirical 
> one obtained specifically for your type of stimulus / brain region 
> / experiment.
> Hope this helps-
> Andreas
> 
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> Von: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library im Auftrag von Xuelin Cui
> Gesendet: Sa 31.03.2007 00:07
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> 
> 
> hi Andreas:
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> But I dont totally understand what you said. Could you please 
> explain a little bit more on that: "However, you can simply 
> correlate your design (boxcar or, for event-related studies 
> namely, your stimulus-/response-ons convolved with some type of 
> HRF)" What is a HRF? Do you have an example, or a relevant paper?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Xuelin
> 
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> University of Hawaii-Manoa
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andreas Bartsch <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:26 pm
> Subject: [FSL] AW: [FSL] how to relate each IC to different tasks?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> > Hi,
> > Strictly speaking: you can't (- at least not by just running a
> > single experiment and analysing it;)
> > However, you can simply correlate your design (boxcar or, for
> > event-related studies namely, your stimulus-/response-ons
> > convolved with some type of HRF) with the time-course (in SD
> > units) of the respective tXX.txt file. Or even easier, if you have
> > no spatial hypothesis whatsoever, select those Ics whose FFT are
> > peaking at the appropriate frequency and then look at the time-
> > courses, if they are synchronous to your paradigm.
> > Hope that helps-
> > Andreas
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im
> > Auftrag von Xuelin Cui
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. März 2007 00:55
> > An: [log in to unmask]
> > Betreff: [FSL] how to relate each IC to different tasks?
> >
> > hi folks:
> >
> > I here have a  question. I am doing the ICA analysis on fMRI data.
> > But I am confused on how to relate rach IC extracted from the fMRI
> > data to different tasks. Put in this way: if I see an IC, how can
> > I tell the IC is caused by what kind of reason?
> >
> > Anyone could give any suggestions? I really appreciate your 
> thoughts.>
> > Thanks 
> >
> > Xuelin
> >
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