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<font face="Dialog" size="2">I encountered a problem when plotting the results of a beamformer analysis with individual BEM headmodels. For each subject, I did an ft_sourceanalysis (DICS) and then interpolated the individual volume on the individual anatomy with ft_sourceinterpolate. The result was normalised onto the SPM8 template brain with ft_volumenormalise; then I computed the grand average with ft_sourcegrandaverage. </font> </p>
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<font face="Dialog" size="2">When I plot the grand average (with cfg.funparameter = 'pow'), I see nice results at expected brain regions, but also artifacts around the outline of the volume - see my attached Figure "source_power.png". It appears as if normalization was imperfect so that a border remains, possibly showing idiosyncratic activations from single subjects. The border does not show up if, with the same data, I do ft_sourcestatistics and then plot the results with cfg.funparameter = 'stat' (see attached "source_stat.png"). One might expect this if the voxels showed activation of only one subject so that a t-test would return NANs.</font> </p>
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<font face="Dialog" size="2">I then had a look into the "*.inside" fields of the normalized volumes and was surprised to see that number of voxels inside the brain was different for each subject (ranging between 23 and 27 % roughly). Should that not be the same number of voxels for each subject after normalization? I am now unsure whether the border is a known behavior when plottig the grand average over individual heads,or whether I made an error with normalization. I would be very happy if any someone had an advice for me.</font> </p>
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<font face="Dialog" size="2">Many thanks and best regards,</font> </p>
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<font face="Dialog" size="2">Gregor</font> </p>
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<BR>Dr. rer. nat. Gregor Volberg <gregor.volberg@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de> ( mailto:gregor.volberg@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de )
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