Stoewer, Steffen, Goense, Goense, Keliris, Georgios A, Bartels, Andreas, Logothetis, Nikos K, Duncan, John and Sigala, Natasha (2012) An analysis approach for high-field fMRI data from awake non-human primates. PLoS ONE, 7 (1). e29697. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

fMRI experiments with awake non-human primates (NHP) have seen a surge of applications in recent years. However, the standard fMRI analysis tools designed for human experiments are not optimal for analysis of NHP fMRI data collected at high fields. There are several reasons for this, including the trial-based nature of NHP experiments, with inter-trial periods being of no interest, and segmentation artefacts and distortions that may result from field changes due to movement. We demonstrate an approach that allows us to address some of these issues consisting of the following steps: 1) Trial-based experimental design. 2) Careful control of subject movement. 3) Computer-assisted selection of trials devoid of artefacts and animal motion. 4) Nonrigid between-trial and rigid within-trial realignment of concatenated data from temporally separated trials and sessions. 5) Linear interpolation of inter-trial intervals and high-pass filtering of temporally continuous data 6) Removal of interpolated data and reconcatenation of datasets before statistical analysis with SPM. We have implemented a software toolbox, fMRI Sandbox (http://code.google.com/p/fmri-sandbox/), for semi-automated application of these processing steps that interfaces with SPM software. Here, we demonstrate that our methodology provides significant improvements for the analysis of awake monkey fMRI data acquired at high-field. The method may also be useful for clinical applications with subjects that are unwilling or unable to remain motionless for the whole duration of a functional scan.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	e29697
Schools and Departments:	Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Clinical and Experimental Medicine Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Neuroscience
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) T Technology > TP Chemical technology > TP0248.13 Biotechnology
Depositing User:	Grecia GarciaGarcia
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2012 10:55
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2017 11:53
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7282

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