[FieldTrip] Choosing a subset of sensors with a uniform distribution over the head

["Jörn M. Horschig"]

Hi Stephen,

there is no predfine FieldTrip way for this. You could try to this via 
the neighbour template. If you know that the neighbours are well defined 
and only the nearest neighbours are defined as neighbours (the 
triangulation method might do that), you can loop through the neighbour 
definition, and throw out all neighbours of channel i from the neighbour 
definition, something like:

> for i=1:numel(neighbs)
>
> % find all neighbouring channels of channel i
> neighbbix = match_str(neighbs(i).neighblabel, {neighb(:).label});
>
> % throw them out
> neighb(neighbidx) = [];
>
> end

what you end up with is a neighbour structure with all channels that are 
not adjacent to one another, i.e. a reduced number of channels. Not sure 
if this works, but you might give it a try.

Best,
Jörn


On 9/19/2014 10:59 AM, Stephen Politzer-Ahles wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to plot a multiplot of MEG sensors over the head, but 
> since I have over 200 sensors I don't want to plot them all (it 
> becomes more or less illegible; see http://i.imgur.com/lT93i2T.png). 
> What I would like to do is take half or even a third of the channels, 
> and plot them at double or triple the size, as in 
> http://i.imgur.com/6wcrNFS.png (which I created by just plotting the 
> even-numbered channels). As you can see from this image, simply 
> selecting the even-numbered channels in my array doesn't give a nice 
> symmetrical or uniform distribution. Is there any way (for example, 
> somehow using the neighbours structure) to decimate the channels or to 
> otherwise choose a subset of channels that is uniformly distributed 
> over the head?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Steve
>
>
> Stephen Politzer-Ahles
> New York University, Abu Dhabi
> Neuroscience of Language Lab
> http://www.nyu.edu/projects/politzer-ahles/
>
>
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Jörn M. Horschig
PhD Student
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Radboud University Nijmegen
Neuronal Oscillations Group
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