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Abstract #2231

Venous Suppression in Resting State FMRI: Implications for Correlation Analysis

Andrew T. Curtis1, R. Matthew Hutchison1, Ravi S. Menon1

1Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

A phase regressor technique is applied to resting state fMRI data to suppress venous contributions. Resulting seed-based correlation maps demonstrate substantial differences in spatial organization and correlation values.

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