a basic question about alff

Submitted by fish on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 13:27

Dear Dr. Yan,


            Sorry to bother you some basic questions, I want to know what I will get after two-sample t-test by using ALFF, the data I uesd mALFF. Second, if I used VOI in spm to extract significant value from two-sample t-test by using ALFF, what's the value represent? Third, if I have used covariates such as gender in the two-sample t-test, after that I extracted value to do correlation, should I use partial correlation, I mean regress out gender covariates again? or only correlation?


Any helpful advice will be highly appreciated!


Best


fish

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YAN Chao-Gan

Sat, 08/15/2015 - 08:27

Hi Fish,

1. This is the difference of normalized ALFF (m*) between the two groups.

2. If you extracted from the m* files, that means the relative strength of ALFF of that voxel (relative to the global mean).

3. I suggest you to use a GLM model to do that. Partial correlation is equivalent to regressing out all the other covariates and then do correlation.

Best,

Chao-Gan