How can I extract grey matter voxel signal?

Submitted by Eunji Jun on

Hi, I have 2 questions.

First, How can I extract only grey matter voxel signal?

I extracted 116 ROI region signal applied by AAL mask, but I need voxel-wise information.

I knew that functional information comes from grey matter, so I'm gonna extract all voxel signals in grey matter.

 

Second, I don't know how I can start the point where I have done processing so that I shouldn't do again what I had done.

I tried to uncheck the menu which I have done, but I don't know how I can write 'starting working directory'.

And DPARSF said "Please arrange each subject's NIFTI images in one directory, and then put them in your defined Starting Directory Name "FunRaw" directory under the working directory"

 

Please reply. Thank you.

YAN Chao-Gan

Wed, 08/24/2016 - 09:01

1. If you want to process all the signals from every voxel, that means you have to know some programming skill. You can check y_Read.m.

2. Seems you didn't uncheck EPI DICOM to NIfTI given the message.

Thank you for your reply.

I want you to give me more detail explanation about your first solution.

To extract grey matter signal, in Matlab, I gave input 'wFiltered_4DVolume.nii' in FunImgARCFW directory to 'y_Read.m' and I thought that its output is grey matter signal.

But maybe it's not exact and I also did same process 'swFiltered_4DVolume.nii' in FunImgARCFWS directory to 'y_Read.m' and it's also not correct.

What's does 'some programming skill' which you said to me? I've used matlab.

Please reply with more explanation.

Thank you!