TFRs on virtual source data, Neuromag 122

[Nathan Weisz]

hi nina,

did you validate the position by plotting them on the individuals MRI?
I mean the ones you define in xgrid, ygrid and zgrid.

when i project my data into source space to do e.g. time-frequencystuff i do:
cfg=[];
cfg.vol=vol;
cfg.grid.pos=rois; %%here is a difference to your code
cfg.grad=data.grad;
cfg.channel={'MEG'};

grid=prepare_leadfield(cfg);

then i continue with the sourceanalysis stuff.

good luck,
n

On 27.04.2010, at 14:23, Nina wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I am working on constructing a virtual sensor for my 122 Neuromag MEG data in order to compute time frequency analysis on this virtual sensor.
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> The results I am getting so far are not in line with the sensor level data. On sensor level I see a very clear gamma response. It is also present on source level in the frequency domain, using dics, however, the time course of the source is not as strong and frequency confined on source level. Does anybody have any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
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> In the following, I would like to explain what I have done so far and what my problems are. I am attaching the script I used in text format.
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> About the data set:
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> It contains trials of three different conditions. These trials are of variable lengths (spread evenly over the conditions) and there are not always the same number of trials in each condition.
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> What I have done so far:
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> based on TFRs on sensor level I chose each subject’s strongest gamma frequency
> for each subject, I took this frequency (+/- 5 Hz) and calculated spatial filters for stimulation and baseline periods, averaged over all three conditions using a DICS beamformer
> for each voxel, the ratio of poststimulus power to prestimulus power was computed
> from that I took the voxel with maximum power increase and used it as my voxel of interest,
> for this voxel of interest I calculated a new dipole grid with only one voxel. It is in the same location as the strongest voxel from step 3.
> then I went back to my functional data and used the FT function ‘timelockanalysis’ to compute the covariance matrices for all my sensors and trials (keeping single trials), trying different time windows for covariance computation, but always calculating power for the whole time period:
> pre stimulus [-2 0] (but using the  whole trial for timelockanalysis; time = [-2 3],
> post stimulus [0 3] (but using the  whole trial for timelockanalysis; time = [-2 3],
> the whole time period [-2 3],
> pre stimulus [-2 0] (using only that time window for timelockanalysis; time = [-2 0],
> post stimulus [0 2] (using only that time window for timelockanalysis; time = [0 2]
> the covariance matrices were put into source analysis, again computing spatial filters for the voxel of interest (using rawtrial = ‘yes’)
> NaNs, that were due to different lengths of trials, in dipole moments resulting from source analysis were removed
> then I put the resulting dipole moments of the three directions (x,y,z) into a structure that resembles that of preprocessed data
> time frequency representations of power were calculated using a multitaper approach
> When looking at the three directions (x,y,z,) separately in a time frequency plot, this gives me
> somehow meaningful results for the covariance window being pre stimulus (5.a), however, they are a lot weaker than on sensor level.
> no meaningful results for the covariance window being post stimulus (5.b) or the whole time period (5.c)
> for 5. d/e relative changes to baseline were calculated for each of the trials
> this gives me somehow meaningful results, but very weak and not constrained to the before found frequency ranges
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> Does anybody have experience with this kind of analysis? Do you have any suggestions about which step might be causing these troubles?
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> Thank you all in advance for any help!
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> Nina
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> <virtualsensor.txt>


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