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Hmm.. This analysis could be done in two different ways, but both of them are not currently supported.
1. For surface based analysis (cbm), you can merge left and right hemispheres and do a combined cortical analysis.
2. For volume based analysis (tbm), you can do the whole brain analysis, and then report the results on the contralateral side.
3. Alternately, one can do an asymmetry analysis by subtracting the thickness of the left from the right hemisphere within subject and then do a group analysis and mask out the location of the tumor (you will find a huge effect there obviously).
Options 1 and 3 are not currently supported in bssr. But you can run option 2.
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I will tell you what I did and also a second idea, which I think won’t work.
What I did is : analysed the contralateral hemisphere for both and combined the results – the right hemisphere of the patients with a tumor on the left side and the left hemisphere of the patients with the tumor on the right side.
In this case, the results are accurate but not combined. I would rather be able to mirror the patients for example with tumor on the left side so that I would be able to do one analysis for all the patients.
Concerning the last sentence (just above this one) I had the following ideas:
To re-name the atlas.pvc-thickness_0-6mm.smooth2.5mm.left.mid.cortex.dfs
a)left to right (for the patients for example with left side tumors) so that all the tumors will be on the same side and the side analysed will be the one that I need (contralateral)In this case, I am afraid that the volumetric results won’t be right, because the structures of the left side will have the values of the right side.
b)in place of left to write ipsilateral and in place of right to write contralateral (or reverse, according each time to each case).
In this case, I am afraid that bssr won’t even work.
What do you think?
I hope you can understand my thoughts.
Thank you!
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Hi,
I would not recommend doing either a) or b) above.
1. For within patients analysis only, one could analyze Laterality (left vs right) as the main effect. You could include Sex as a covariate.
2. Again for within patients, you can do separate analyses for all patients with left sided tumors and right sided tumors.
3. If you want an across subject (controls and patients), then you could include laterality as a covariate.
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I have my results and started to write the paper. I have however two more questions:
1) The yellow/pink colours show an increase in cortical thickness and the blue colour a decrease, is it right?
2) Is there a way to press on the coloured region and see which structure it is? Some of them are easy to identify but some of them not.I thank you so much for your help until now and I hope that sonn I will attend a Brain Suite course to learn much more about the software.
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>> 1) The yellow/pink colours show an increase in cortical thickness and the blue colour a decrease, >> is it right?
That’s right.
>> 2) Is there a way to press on the coloured region and see which structure it is? Some of them are >> easy to identify but some of them not.
We are currently developing this functionality, but I’m afraid it won’t be available at least until a few months.
And yes, stay tuned for the information on the next BrainSuite course.
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