SPMers:
I am on the editorial board of the journal Concepts in Magnetic
Resonance (CMR). This journal publishes pedagogical (educational)
articles in the general area of magnetic resonance, including MRI.
Tables of Contents for recent issues are available at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc/38226/. Volume 16A,
published in January 2003, was a special issue on fMRI. One area that
was not covered well in that issue is an explanation of fMRI statistics.
Since there have been many questions about fMRI statistics in this
email list, I thought it would be a good idea to invite someone to write
an article for CMR on fMRI statistics. You could assume basic
knowledge, such as standard deviations and T-tests, but the array of
terms and acronyms I have seen on this list could use some explanation.
The article should be aimed for beginning graduate students, for MDs
trying to do fMRI research, etc., not for fMRI or statistics experts.
For example, rather than citing text books or published papers for
Bayesian analysis or Bonferroni corrections or family-wise error, the
article should explain what they mean, when they are used, when they
should not be used, etc. Although the article should focus on fMRI,
functional PET imaging could also be discussed, especially in comparison
to fMRI.
If you are interested in writing or co-authoring such an article, please
contact me off-list. I will put the responders in touch with each other
to see if they want to co-author a paper, or who can submit the paper
sooner. We especially need papers for the May 2004 issue. Papers for
that issue are usually submitted in October 2003. However, if you could
submit a good paper electronically by the end of December 2003, and
could supply the names of 4-6 potential reviewers who have agreed to
complete their review within 2 weeks, it might be possible to include it
for the May 2004 issue. If you cannot meet that deadline, then the
article would be considered for future issues. Also, if you could
review such a paper (not necessarily within 2 weeks), please contact me.
If anyone has ideas for other fMRI-related topics (for example,
comparing functional PET and fMRI), you are invited to submit them to
the journal's editorial office ([log in to unmask]). I suggest that
you look at the special January 2003 volume 16A on fMRI before
suggesting other topics.
--
Peter B. Kingsley, MRI Physicist [log in to unmask]
Department of Radiology / MRI
North Shore University Hospital
300 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
Tel (516) 562-2842 Fax (516) 562-3561
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