In your FSGD you'll have to add a covariate for "scanner"
On 08/08/2014 12:34 PM, David Tate wrote:
FreeSurfer Gurus,
I would like to pose this question again to the group if possible.  We are working with data that comes from two different scanners.  Our experimental group was collected on one scanner and then control data was acquired on another scanner.  Not the optimal situation I realize but unavoidable.  We were fortunate to be able to acquire imaging for a subsample of patients on both scanners in the same day.  Preliminary results suggest that one site measures cortical thickness and subcortical volumes in a non-significant (statistically) but consistent direction with one scanner producing larger volume and thickness measures.  

My question is whether or not it is possible to mathematically account for these differences in any analysis that we are doing using FreeSurfer and if so where can I find those procedures for practically implementing the correction?

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

David


On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:07 AM, David Tate <dftatephd@mac.com> wrote:

We are working on a study that includes data from multiple scanners and initial indication suggest that there may be small differences in cortical thickness measures that are scanner related (human and other phantom data were acquired at both sites).

Is it possible to include a correction factor adjusting for the scanner differences when using glmfit or qdec?

Thanks,

David

David F. Tate, Ph.D.
Research Neuropsychologist
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
Contractor, General Dynamics Information Technology
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