Neuroimage. 2005 Jan 15;24(2):323-31. Epub 2004 Dec 10.

Influence of fMRI smoothing procedures on replicability of fine scale motor localization.

Geissler A, Lanzenberger R, Barth M, Tahamtan AR, Milakara D, Gartus A, Beisteiner R.

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Study Group Clinical fMRI at the Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

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Recent publications analyzing the influence of spatial smoothing on fMRI brain activation results demonstrated that smoothing may artificially combine activations from adjacent though functionally and anatomically distinct brain regions and that activation from large draining vessels may be smoothed into neighboring neuronal tissue. To investigate whether functional localizations may be artificially shifted by the smoothing procedure we performed replicability measurements. Localization centers of motor hand activations achieved during different conditions (isolated hand movements and simultaneous hand and chin movements) were compared with respect to smoothing effects. The voxel with the highest probability to represent a true positive activation was localized with a non-smoothed and a standard 4 x 4 x 6 mm smoothed correlational data analysis technique. Results show an increase of motor center aberrations between measurements by about 100% due to data smoothing indicating a statistically significant decrease in localization replicability.

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