So at least 30 min with two phase encoding directions (2400 volumes) or
best the whole 4800 volumes.

Thank you Matthew



2015-02-02 23:24 GMT+01:00 Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]>:

>  Probably better to do two phase encoding directions and 30 mins vs one
> phase encoding direction and 15 mins.  Best to do all four though.
>
>  Peace,
>
>  Matt.
>
>   From: David Hofmann <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, February 2, 2015 at 3:16 PM
> To: Matt Glasser <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chao Liu <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [HCP-Users] Phase Encoding Direction
>
>    Hi all,
>
>  I have the same "problem", so I split the 4800 volumes in half and used
> only 2400 data points so that I have at least two 15-min sessions (2x 1200)
> with both phase encoding directions (I'm using the node timeseries
> txt-files). I also thought about looking at the other 2400 data points and
> compare the difference between the first two and the last two session. As I
> understood, only using 1200 volumes which is only one phase encoding
> direction, seems to be problematic.
>
>  What do you guys think? Is it ok to do it this way?
>
> greetings
>
> David
>
>
>
> 2015-01-23 16:54 GMT+01:00 Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]>:
>
>> The function wb_command -cifti-correlate allows you to conserve RAM when
>> doing a pairwise correlation.  Also I doubt doing it one run at a time
>> would reduce the RAM requirements much since the main array is the 91282 X
>> 91282 dense connectome.
>>
>> Peace,
>>
>> Matt.
>>
>> On 1/23/15, 9:08 AM, "Chao Liu" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >Dear Matt.,
>> >
>> >Thanks for your reply. I have only one machine with 16GB RAM and the
>> >others with 8GB. for a dtseries.nii file, if I calculate pairwise
>> >correlation for a 91282 by 1200 matrix. It would cost 60GB RAM in matlab.
>> >Although we find a way to calculate a sparse pairwise correlation matrix,
>> >we still can not handle a 91282 by 4800 (or more) matrix easily.
>> >
>> >Now that using all four files is essential, I plan to first calculate the
>> >pairwise correlation matrix for each run, then average the correlation
>> >matrix from 4 runs for each subject. Is this ok?
>> >
>> >Many thanks!
>> >Chao
>> >
>> >> On 23 Jan 2015, at 13:57, Glasser, Matthew <[email protected]>
>> >>wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How much RAM do you have?  The CIFTI files use far less RAM than the
>> >> volume files, but contain all the grey matter information represented
>> >>in a
>> >> way that makes combining across subjects more accurate.  If you don¹t
>> >>use
>> >> all the data your estimates of the subject¹s functional connectivity
>> >>will
>> >> be noisier and generally less stable (one 15 min run looks more
>> >>different
>> >> than another than if you compared two sets of 1 hour¹s worth of data).
>> >> Also there are some left/right asymmetries in the data induced by the
>> >> LR/RL phase encoding directions, which some people perceive as a
>> problem
>> >> (though if we had used AP/PA there would still be asymmetries
>> >> posterior/anterior).
>> >>
>> >> Peace,
>> >>
>> >> Matt.
>> >>
>> >> On 1/23/15, 6:44 AM, "Chao Liu" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Dear HCP Experts,
>> >>>
>> >>> I am inspecting the HCP rfMRI data. For each subject, there are two
>> >>> sessions with 2 runs (LR&RL) in each session, yielding 4 files in
>> >>>total.
>> >>> Although we can concatenate all the four time series and do the
>> >>> correlation, I found the memory needed is more than the memory I have
>> >>>on
>> >>> lab computer, leading to a very slow calculation. So I am wondering
>> the
>> >>> difference between using only one run and using all the four runs.
>> Will
>> >>> it give wrong results if I use only one run?
>> >>>
>> >>> Many thanks!
>> >>> Chao
>> >>
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