what's the planar gradient unit?

Jim Li megjim1 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Nov 5 15:18:26 CET 2010


That's good to know. Thanks a lot, jan-mathijs, :)

Jim


On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 09:22:24 +0100, jan-mathijs schoffelen 
<jan.schoffelen at DONDERS.RU.NL> wrote:

>FieldTrip doesn't explicitly know about the physical units (whether
>it's femto nano pico kilo or mega), so it is dependent on the system.
>
>If the magnetic field is defined in T, and the channel position in m,
>I'd say the unit after planar transformation is T/m
>
>
>JM
>
>On Nov 4, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Jim Li wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can anybody help answer Marcel's question? For example, after
>> running "FT_MEGPLANAR" we can get a planar gradient of, say,
>> 4.21e-13, for
>> some channel. Is that number in the unit of "T/m" or what?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:38:44 +0200, Marcel Bastiaansen
>> <Marcel.Bastiaansen at FCDONDERS.RU.NL> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> can anyone tell me what the unit is for planar gradients? Is that
>>> fT /
>>> square meter, or something else?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Marcel
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