Comparing different datasets

Submitted by evast001 on

Dear all

I want to compare the resting state connectivity of three different age groups. My problem is that one of the groups have a few scanning parameters that differ from the other two. It is TR (3 vs 2), number of slices (34 vs 32) slice scan order (ascend vs interleaved) and number of scans (120 vs 180) that differ. 

My questions are: a) is it possible to still compare them in site of these differences?, b) how should I set up the pre-processing; three separate pre-processings or should I try to concatenate my data sets somehow? c) if so, how?

How to make mask based on Harvard-Oxford atlas?

Submitted by yaosir on

Dear Chao-Gan,

I want to make a striatum mask based on Harvard-Oxford atlas and used in my study, but I am not sure how to achieve it. I used to use Pickatlas to generate mask based on AAL. However, the nucleus accubens are not included in the AAL atlas. I will be really appreciated if you could tell the way to generate mask in dpabi.

Best,

Vincent

DPARSFA processing sequence

Submitted by tomchanglai on

To whom it may concern,

We are testing the effects of different processing options on ReHo reliability and we would appreciate if one could help us clarify a few things:

1. Does it make a difference whether we perform 'Nuisance Covariates Regression' or 'Normalize' on our data set first? Also, is there a perferred way/reason why one should be perfroemd before the other?