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The basic story – fMRI in 25 words or less!

The basic story – fMRI in 25 words or less!. fMRI Setup. fMRI Setup – what it really looks like!. Magnet Safety. The whopping strength of the magnet makes safety essential . Things fly – Even big things!. Source: www.howstuffworks.com. Source: http://www.simplyphysics.com/

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The basic story – fMRI in 25 words or less!

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  1. The basic story – fMRI in 25 words or less!

  2. fMRI Setup

  3. fMRI Setup – what it really looks like!

  4. Magnet Safety The whopping strength of the magnet makes safety essential. Things fly – Even big things! Source: www.howstuffworks.com Source: http://www.simplyphysics.com/ flying_objects.html Screen subjects carefully Were you ever a soldier? Make sure you and all your students & staff are aware of hazzards! Develop strategies for screening yourself every time you enter the magnet!

  5. fMRI Experiment Stages: Prep • 1) Prepare subject • Consent form • Safety screening • Instructions • 2) Shimming • putting body in magnetic field makes it non-uniform • adjust 3 orthogonal weak magnets to make magnetic field as homogenous as possible • 3) Sagittals • Take images along the midline to use to plan slices

  6. fMRI Experiment Stages: Anatomicals • 4) Take anatomical (T1) images • high-resolution images (e.g., 1x1x2.5 mm) • 3D data: 3 spatial dimensions, sampled at one point in time • 64 anatomical slices takes ~5 minutes

  7. VOXEL (Volumetric Pixel) Slice Thickness e.g., 6 mm In-plane resolution e.g., 192 mm / 64 = 3 mm 3 mm 6 mm SAGITTAL SLICE IN-PLANE SLICE 3 mm Number of Slices e.g., 10 Matrix Size e.g., 64 x 64 Field of View (FOV) e.g., 19.2 cm Slice Terminology

  8. first volume (2 sec to acquire) fMRI Experiment Stages: Functionals • 5) Take functional (T2*) images • images are indirectly related to neural activity • usually low resolution images (3x3x5 mm) • all slices at one time = a volume (sometimes also called an image) • sample many volumes (time points) (e.g., 1 volume every 2 seconds for 150 volumes = 300 sec = 5 minutes) • 4D data: 3 spatial, 1 temporal …

  9. ROI Time Course fMRI Signal (% change) ~2s Condition Time Condition 1 Statistical Map superimposed on anatomical MRI image Condition 2 ... Region of interest (ROI) ~ 5 min Activation Statistics Functional images Time

  10. time course of activation baseline rest % signal change images stimulation haemodynamic response function Stimulation protocols in fMRI

  11. Statistical Maps & Time Courses Use stat maps to pick regions Then extract the time course

  12. 2D  3D

  13. condition: one set of stimuli or one task 4 stimulus conditions + 1 baseline condition (fixation) Design Jargon: Runs session: all of the scans collected from one subject in one day run (or scan): one continuous period of fMRI scanning (~5-7 min) experiment: a set of conditions you want to compare to each other A session consists of one or more experiments. Each experiment consists of several (e.g., 1-8) runs More runs/expt are needed when SNR is low or the effect is weak. Thus each session consists of numerous (e.g., 5-20) runs (e.g., 0.5 – 3 hours)

  14. run epoch: one instance of a condition first “objects right” epoch second “objects right” epoch volume #1 (time = 0) volume #105 (time = 105 vol x 2 sec/vol = 210 sec = 3:30) epoch 8 vol x 2 sec/vol = 16 sec Time Design Jargon: Paradigm or Protocol paradigm (or protocol): the set of conditions and their order used in a particular run

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