This neonatal RS-fMRI protocol has been developed in a 3T GE MR750 Discovery and includes T2-w and two GRE-EPI with reversed phase encoding polarity for distortion correction purpose.
Equivalent 3D acquisition sequences can be found under different names for the different MRI constructors
- GE: CUBE
- SIEMENS: SPACE
- Philips: VISTA
A real-time head motion quality control script is also included with a video tutorial. The script provide visual outputs.
dcm2niix and FSL have to be previously installed before running the head motion QA script
We recommend to use lower values of TR (i.e. 2s) for both GRE-EPI acquisitions to minimize motion artifacts and to obtain a higher number of samples per acquisition (if the TR is reduced, the number of acquired volumes should be increased).