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Hi Dr. McLaren,

Sorry to interrupt, but I would like to know if a shorter TR (1.8s) was used, do I still need to change the microtime onset accordingly?

Thanks for your reply!

Best wishes,
Miki
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From: SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MCLAREN, Donald [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:43 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [SPM] Microtime resolution and onset

See inline response.

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:50 AM, fMRI <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read somewhere that I should change the microtime resolution and onset to the number of slices and the middle slice respectively if I did the slice timing preprocessing option.

>>> The microtime onset should be set to match the slice timing reference slice acquisition time.


> In SPM, it says change it if I have only long TR. the TR that I have is 3.125 s.

>>> This is long.

>
> The reason why I am asking this question is that I did the analysis with and without these changes (i.e, using and not using the default values). What I get is something different in terms of seeing the effects of the parametric modulation.
>
> Can you please advice me on this issue and whether I should change them or not?
>
> Thanks
>
> AS