Hi - no we do not (in general for resting-state) ever recommend temporal 
contatenation like this before further analyses - for the reason you're seeing 
here.
For example, for the HCP released netmats, we take the 4 runs, one at a time, 
estimate the 4 (zstat) netmats, and average those.
Cheers.




> On 12 Jul 2016, at 09:43, David Hofmann <davidhofma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> thanks for the reply, using a different routine works and shows 1200 volumes. 
> But now it seems that in some data (extracted ROI mean) there is a huge 
> difference between LR and RL phase encoding in the signal (see attached 
> picture). Is this "normal" and can I just concatenate LR and RL together or 
> is this not possible?
> 
> greetings
> 
> David 
> 
> 2016-07-11 19:43 GMT+02:00 Harms, Michael <mha...@wustl.edu 
> <mailto:mha...@wustl.edu>>:
> 
> Hi,
> Can you check the number of volumes/frames of the unpacked 
> REST1_{LR,RL}.nii.gz files using something other than your Matlab/SPM tools?  
> e.g., FSL’s ‘fslhd’ or ‘fslnvols’ commands.
> 
> cheers,
> -MH
> 
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> From: <hcp-users-boun...@humanconnectome.org 
> <mailto:hcp-users-boun...@humanconnectome.org>> on behalf of David Hofmann 
> <davidhofma...@gmail.com <mailto:davidhofma...@gmail.com>>
> Date: Monday, July 11, 2016 at 3:15 AM
> To: "Dierker, Donna" <do...@wustl.edu <mailto:do...@wustl.edu>>
> Cc: hcp-users <hcp-users@humanconnectome.org 
> <mailto:hcp-users@humanconnectome.org>>
> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Extracting ROI data from HCP resting state data - 
> 2400 data points instead of 1200 ?
> 
> Hi Donna and others,
> 
> thanks for your answer. I'm facing a difficulty with extracting data from the 
> preprocessed files, that is they seems to each contain 2400 data points 
> rather than 1200 like described in the documentation. 
> 
> I downloaded the 10 subjects data set and used the following files: 
> subjectcode_3T_rfMRI_REST1_preproc.zip, from which I assume that these are 
> the preprocessed files.
> 
> It contains two datasets LR and RL: 
> 
> \MNINonLinear\Results\rfMRI_REST1_LR
> \MNINonLinear\Results\rfMRI_REST1_RL
> 
> I unpacked these files: 
> 
> rfMRI_REST1_LR.nii.gz
> rfMRI_REST1_RL.nii.gz
> 
> and read them as 4D NIFTI with Matlab and an SPM function. Afterwards they 
> each contain 2400 data points (dimension: 91 109 91 2400), but in the 
> documention it says they each should contain only 1200 data points. So I'm 
> not sure if I did something wrong.
> 
> greetings
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 2016-06-30 18:30 GMT+02:00 Dierker, Donna <do...@wustl.edu 
> <mailto:do...@wustl.edu>>:
> Hi David,
> 
> I hope this publication answers your questions about HCP rfMRI preprocessing:
> 
> Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project.
> Smith SM1, Beckmann CF, Andersson J, Auerbach EJ, Bijsterbosch J, Douaud G, 
> Duff E, Feinberg DA, Griffanti L, Harms MP, Kelly M, Laumann T, Miller KL, 
> Moeller S, Petersen S, Power J, Salimi-Khorshidi G, Snyder AZ, Vu AT, 
> Woolrich MW, Xu J, Yacoub E, Uğurbil K, Van Essen DC, Glasser MF; WU-Minn HCP 
> Consortium.
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720828/ 
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720828/>
> 
> I am only used to seeing what it is in the fix extended packages, so I'm not 
> sure all these volumes are in the basic fix packages, but here are NIFTI 
> volumes in a sample subject's rfMRI subdirectories:
> 
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_LR/rfMRI_REST1_LR_hp2000_clean.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_LR/rfMRI_REST1_LR_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/mask.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_LR/rfMRI_REST1_LR_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_IC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_LR/rfMRI_REST1_LR_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_oIC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_LR/rfMRI_REST1_LR.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_RL/rfMRI_REST1_RL_hp2000_clean.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_RL/rfMRI_REST1_RL_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/mask.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_RL/rfMRI_REST1_RL_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_IC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_RL/rfMRI_REST1_RL_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_oIC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST1_RL/rfMRI_REST1_RL.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_LR/rfMRI_REST2_LR_hp2000_clean.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_LR/rfMRI_REST2_LR_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/mask.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_LR/rfMRI_REST2_LR_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_IC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_LR/rfMRI_REST2_LR_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_oIC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_LR/rfMRI_REST2_LR.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_RL/rfMRI_REST2_RL_hp2000_clean.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_RL/rfMRI_REST2_RL_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/mask.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_RL/rfMRI_REST2_RL_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_IC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_RL/rfMRI_REST2_RL_hp2000.ica/filtered_func_data.ica/melodic_oIC.nii.gz
> 177645/MNINonLinear/Results/rfMRI_REST2_RL/rfMRI_REST2_RL.nii.gz
> 
> Maybe this page will help explain those:
> 
> http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/lectures/practicals/rfMRIconnectivity/ 
> <http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/lectures/practicals/rfMRIconnectivity/>
> 
> But keep in mind that for neocortex, you can take advantage of the surface 
> data the HCP provides (e.g., fsaverage_32k/*surf.gii, *dscalar.nii and 
> *dtseries.nii).  You can get better inter-subject registration/alignment on 
> the surface, if that will be a factor in your study.
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> On Jun 28, 2016, at 6:30 PM, David Hofmann <davidhofma...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:davidhofma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to extract ROI data (only neocortex) 'manually' e.g. using a 
> > ROI from Harvard-Oxford atlas from HCP resting state data, but I'm not sure 
> > which (nifti) files to use and where to find them. I'm also looking for 
> > some information about the preprocessing steps applied to the resting state 
> > data that is, if some additional steps (e.g. filtering) have to be carried 
> > out before ROI extraction or if this has already been done.
> >
> > Any help on this appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > David
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