Optimization of Blocked Designs in fMRI Studies |
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Authors: | Bärbel Maus Gerard J. P. van Breukelen Rainer Goebel Martijn P. F. Berger |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratory for Neuropsychology, Department of Neurology, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 4K3, Ghent, Belgium;(2) Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium;(3) Department of Radiology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Blocked designs in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are useful to localize functional brain areas. A blocked design consists of different blocks of trials of the same stimulus type and is characterized by three factors: the length of blocks, i.e., number of trials per blocks, the ordering of task and rest blocks, and the time between trials within one block. Optimal design theory was applied to find the optimal combination of these three design factors. Furthermore, different error structures were used within a general linear model for the analysis of fMRI data, and the maximin criterion was applied to find designs which are robust against misspecification of model parameters. |
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