DPARSF Template

Submitted by Loose on

Dear Chao-Gan and other experts,

currently im doing my doctoral thesis in the context of my medecine studies. Therefore im trying to find out if there are correlations between different resting-state networks and cognitive performance of patients suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).  For analysing my data i have been working with dpars - tool over the last 3 months. 

During the working process i used the EPI template of SPM 12 to show the network pictures normalised on this template.Unfortunately, the EPI template is not always fitting to the voxels representing dfferent networks, so that sometimes ventricles of the brain are tagged or regions which cant be tagged because they are not brain area any more (see attachment for pictures)

Do you have any idea how i can improve those pictures/results, if it is possible to use another template than the one provided by spm12 which is used by dpars?

Or is it possible to create my own template?

I would be really happy about an answer from your side. Thank you very much!

 

Best regards,

 

Inga Tasche 

YAN Chao-Gan

Fri, 06/30/2017 - 07:45

It's normal that you get differences in ventricle areas.

You have to interpret carefully. Another way is restrict your comparison within the gray matter mask.

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