[pymvpa] [PyMVPA] hevay head movements

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, cfygj wrote:
>    I want to conduct MVPA, and I have four runs data. Now I need to fslmerge
>    these four runs and make a common mask for them. The problem that I need
>    to address is that heavy head movements between these runs. That is to
>    say, each run has samll head movements, however, heavy head
>    movements would generate when fslmerge these 4 runs. How to remove the
>    possible effect of head motion on BOLD signal. Anyone have the quick
>    answer on this?

you just motion correct all of your BOLD runs (after fslmerge, do not
motion correct before at all) to a sample image taken from one of
your runs (at times, closest to the anatomical, i.e. from the last run
if anatomical is taken after).  Some people do it multi-pass even: after
initial pass of motion correction take the mean of all motion corrected
volumes from all runs as you target image and motion correct original 4
runs to that one.

hope this helps
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