Abstract
In functional magnetic resonance imaging, voxel time courses after Fourier or non-Fourier "image reconstruction" are complex valued as a result of phase imperfections due to magnetic field inhomogeneities. Nearly all fMRI studies derive functional "activation" based on magnitude voxel time courses [Bandettini, P., Jesmanowicz, A., Wong, E., Hyde, J.S., 1993. Processing strategies for time-course data sets in functional MRI of the human brain. Magn. Reson. Med. 30 (2): 161-173 and Cox, R.W., Jesmanowicz, A., Hyde, J.S., 1995. Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging. Magn. Reson. Med. 33 (2): 230-236]. Here, we propose to directly model the entire complex or bivariate data rather than just the magnitude-only data. A nonlinear multiple regression model is used to model activation of the complex signal, and a likelihood ratio test is derived to determine activation in each voxel. We investigate the performance of the model on a real dataset, then compare the magnitude-only and complex models under varying signal-to-noise ratios in a simulation study with varying activation contrast effects.
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