The effects of multi-echo fMRI combination and rapid T2*-mapping on offline and real-time BOLD sensitivity. Heunis, S., Breeuwer, M., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Hellrung, L., Huijbers, W., Jansen, J. F., Lamerichs, R., Zinger, S., & Aldenkamp, A. P. Neuroimage, 2021. Heunis, Stephan Breeuwer, Marcel Caballero-Gaudes, Cesar Hellrung, Lydia Huijbers, Willem Jansen, Jacobus Fa Lamerichs, Rolf Zinger, Svitlana Aldenkamp, Albert P eng Neuroimage. 2021 Jun 8:118244. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118244.
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A variety of strategies are used to combine multi-echo functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, yet recent literature lacks a systematic comparison of the available options. Here we compare six different approaches derived from multi-echo data and evaluate their influences on BOLD sensitivity for offline and in particular real-time use cases: a single-echo time series (based on Echo 2), the real-time T2*-mapped time series (T2*FIT) and four combined time series (T2*-weighted, tSNR-weighted, TE-weighted, and a new combination scheme termed T2*FIT-weighted). We compare the influences of these six multi-echo derived time series on BOLD sensitivity using a healthy participant dataset (N=28) with four task-based fMRI runs and two resting state runs. We show that the T2*FIT-weighted combination yields the largest increase in temporal signal-to-noise ratio across task and resting state runs. We demonstrate additionally for all tasks that the T2*FIT time series consistently yields the largest offline effect size measures and real-time region-of-interest based functional contrasts and temporal contrast-to-noise ratios. These improvements show the promising utility of multi-echo fMRI for studies employing real-time paradigms, while further work is advised to mitigate the decreased tSNR of the T2*FIT time series. We recommend the use and continued exploration of T2*FIT for offline task-based and real-time region-based fMRI analysis. Supporting information includes: a data repository (https://dataverse.nl/dataverse/rt-me-fmri), an interactive web-based application to explore the data (https://rt-me-fmri.herokuapp.com/), and further materials and code for reproducibility (https://github.com/jsheunis/rt-me-fMRI).
@article{RN281,
   author = {Heunis, S. and Breeuwer, M. and Caballero-Gaudes, C. and Hellrung, L. and Huijbers, W. and Jansen, J. F. and Lamerichs, R. and Zinger, S. and Aldenkamp, A. P.},
   title = {The effects of multi-echo fMRI combination and rapid T2*-mapping on offline and real-time BOLD sensitivity},
   journal = {Neuroimage},
   pages = {118244},
   note = {Heunis, Stephan
Breeuwer, Marcel
Caballero-Gaudes, Cesar
Hellrung, Lydia
Huijbers, Willem
Jansen, Jacobus Fa
Lamerichs, Rolf
Zinger, Svitlana
Aldenkamp, Albert P
eng
Neuroimage. 2021 Jun 8:118244. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118244.},
   abstract = {A variety of strategies are used to combine multi-echo functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, yet recent literature lacks a systematic comparison of the available options. Here we compare six different approaches derived from multi-echo data and evaluate their influences on BOLD sensitivity for offline and in particular real-time use cases: a single-echo time series (based on Echo 2), the real-time T2*-mapped time series (T2*FIT) and four combined time series (T2*-weighted, tSNR-weighted, TE-weighted, and a new combination scheme termed T2*FIT-weighted). We compare the influences of these six multi-echo derived time series on BOLD sensitivity using a healthy participant dataset (N=28) with four task-based fMRI runs and two resting state runs. We show that the T2*FIT-weighted combination yields the largest increase in temporal signal-to-noise ratio across task and resting state runs. We demonstrate additionally for all tasks that the T2*FIT time series consistently yields the largest offline effect size measures and real-time region-of-interest based functional contrasts and temporal contrast-to-noise ratios. These improvements show the promising utility of multi-echo fMRI for studies employing real-time paradigms, while further work is advised to mitigate the decreased tSNR of the T2*FIT time series. We recommend the use and continued exploration of T2*FIT for offline task-based and real-time region-based fMRI analysis. Supporting information includes: a data repository (https://dataverse.nl/dataverse/rt-me-fmri), an interactive web-based application to explore the data (https://rt-me-fmri.herokuapp.com/), and further materials and code for reproducibility (https://github.com/jsheunis/rt-me-fMRI).},
   keywords = {Adaptive paradigms
Amygdala
Emotion processing
Finger tapping
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Methods development
Motor
Multi-echo
Neurofeedback
Real-time
Resting state
Task
Philips Research and Philips Healthcare in The Netherlands. The other authors
have declared that no further competing interests exist.},
   ISSN = {1095-9572 (Electronic)
1053-8119 (Linking)},
   DOI = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118244},
   url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34116148},
   year = {2021},
   type = {Journal Article}
}

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