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.