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Hi Marko, Thanks for the paper. We do have a composite measure of motion from Artifact Reduction Toolbox, and we screened participants scans based on composite measures rather than separately by translational/rotational measures. But I was thinking to report some stats separately for each motion parameter to show the average and age effects. Perhaps instead I should report the stats for the composite measure? It is just I feel that the values of composite measures are less interpretable. Are there some guidelines/rule of thumb on how to interpret the magnitude of these composite measures? Thanks Lingfei ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marko Wilke" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Lingfei Tang" <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 11:48:28 AM Subject: Re: [SPM] Motion parameter summary Lingfei, > When summarizing the motion parameters, I am wondering how I should average. Say I have 3 runs, each run having a rp file, should I average within per run and then average across 3 runs. I am not completely sure what you mean, and why you want to do it... but assuming you want to describe the amount of motion per subject, per session, I would like to suggest to not only rely on these parameters to assess subject motion. I humbly suggest you take a look at a recent concoction of mine at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25333359 for the reasons why I think this is not an excellent idea. I may have misunderstood your question, though, as averaging motion across sessions does not seem to make much sense to me (each session is either acceptable, or not - a bad one will not outweigh a good one, or vice versa). > The first line of the rp files are always all 0s and each line is against the first scan. When averaging, should I do a subtraction to get the scan-to-scan movement, or should I just average from 2 to last line within each rp file? The first line is zeros as motion is "corrected for" by realigning all subsequent scans to the first one. Therefore, by definition the first scan did not move (this is also true if you select "register to mean", as explained at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=SPM;5dfedb11.0801) Cheers, Marko -- ____________________________________________________ PD Dr. med. Marko Wilke Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin Leiter, Experimentelle Pädiatrische Neurobildgebung Universitäts-Kinderklinik Abt. III (Neuropädiatrie) Marko Wilke, MD, PhD Pediatrician Head, Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging University Children's Hospital Dept. III (Pediatric Neurology) Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 1 D - 72076 Tübingen, Germany Tel. +49 7071 29-83416 Fax +49 7071 29-5473 [log in to unmask] http://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/kinder/epn/ ____________________________________________________