fmri.stimulus: Linear Model for FMRI Data

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

View source: R/lmslicetime.R

Description

Create the expected BOLD response for a given task indicator function.

Usage

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  fmri.stimulus(scans = 1, onsets = c(1), durations = c(1), TR = 2,
                times = FALSE, sliceorder = NULL,
                type = c("canonical", "gamma", "boxcar", "user"),
                par = NULL, scale = 10, hrf = NULL, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

scans

number of scans

onsets

vector of onset times (in scans)

durations

vector of duration of ON stimulus in scans or seconds (if !is.null(times))

TR

time between scans in seconds (TR)

times

onset times in seconds. If present onsets arguments is ignored.

sliceorder

order of slice acquisition. If provided separate expected bold responses are calculated for the slices taking slice acquisition times into account. Default: no slice timing.

type

One of "canonical", "gamma", "boxcar", "user"

par

Possible parameters to the HRF.

scale

Temporal undersampling factor

hrf

If type is "user" this should be a function evaluating the hemodynamic response function

verbose

Report more if TRUE

Details

The functions calculates the expected BOLD response for the task indicator function given by the argument as a convolution with the hemodynamic response function.

If sliceorder provides an ordering of slice acquisitions a matrix of expected Bold responses with colums corresponding to the slice number is computed.

For type is "canonical" the latter is modelled by the difference between two gamma functions as given in the reference (with the defaults for a1, a2, b1, b2, cc given therein):

(x/d1)^a1 * exp(-(x - d1)/b1) - c * (x/d2)^a2 * exp(-(x - d2)/b2)

The parameters a1, a2, b1, b2, cc of this function can be changed through the argument par in this order.

Other choices are a simple gamma function

\frac{1}{kτ_h (k-1)!} ≤ft( \frac{t}{τ_h} \right)^k \exp ≤ft( - \frac{t}{τ_h} \right)

or the "boxcar" stimulus, or a user defined function hrf.

The dimension of the function value is set to c(scans, 1).

If !is.null(times) durations are specified in seconds.

Value

Vector with dimension c(scans, 1) or a matrix with dimension c(scans, number of slices).

Author(s)

Karsten Tabelow tabelow@wias-berlin.de, Joerg Polzehl polzehl@wias-berlin.de

References

Worsley, K.J., Liao, C., Aston, J., Petre, V., Duncan, G.H., Morales, F., Evans, A.C. (2002). A general statistical analysis for fMRI data. NeuroImage, 15:1-15.

Polzehl, J. and Tabelow, K. (2007) fmri: A Package for Analyzing fmri Data, R News, 7:13-17 .

See Also

fmri.design, fmri.lm

Examples

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  # Example 1
  hrf <- fmri.stimulus(107, c(18, 48, 78), 15, 2)
  z <- fmri.design(hrf, 2)
  par(mfrow=c(2, 2))
  for (i in 1:4) plot(z[, i], type="l")

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