Hi Martin, thanks! -- in that region they are, but not by much (around 75% to 80 %), as compared to the rest of the brain. It complies fairly well with the b1 scan for that session. Regards, Johan On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Martin Pyka <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > hi johan, > > have a look at spm_fmri_spm_ui.m (spm8) l. 430ff: > > %-Masking structure automatically set to 80% of mean > %======================================================================= > try > TH = g.*gSF*defaults.mask.thresh; > catch > TH = g.*gSF*0.8; > end > SPM.xM = struct( 'T', ones(q,1),... > 'TH', TH,... > 'I', 0,... > 'VM', {[]},... > 'xs', struct('Masking','analysis threshold')); > > > so, I suppose the signal value in your voxels are below the 80% threshold. > > hth >