Dear Woo-Suk
With a TR of 8s it is very unlikely that your physiological components
will be located at a single frequency. As the cardiac pulsation and
respiration are non-stationary (their frequencies vary over time), the
aliased noise will look like white noise in a spectrogram. So what you
see in your fft is most likely due to scanner drift. Scanner drift can
be removed using the SPM high-pass filter. For further information see https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind00&L=SPM&P=R111434
or have a look at the paper bellow.
Hope this helps
Torben
Torben Ellegaard Lund
Assistant Professor, PhD
The Danish National Research Foundation's Center of Functionally
Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN)
Aarhus University
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Lund et al. Non-white noise in fMRI: Does modelling have an impact?.
NeuroImage (2005) pp. 13
Den 02/07/2009 kl. 08.23 skrev Woo-Suk, Tae:
> Dear SPM experts
>
> I have an aliasing problem in my FFT with time-course data.
>
> TR of EPIs was 8 sec. and it seem that there were aliasing
> components in frequency domain
>
> graph related with low frequency drift, respitory and cardiac cycles.
>
> Can these aliasing components could be controlled by bandpass filter?
>
>
>
> Woo-Suk, Tae
> Chuncheon, Korea
>
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