Abstract #3932
            Independent Component Analysis (ICA) of functional QSM
                      PINAR SENAY ZBAY                     1,2                    , Cristina Rossi                     1                    , 						Geoffrey Warnock                     3                    , Felix Kuhn                     3                    , 						Burak Akin                     4                    , Klaas Paul Prssmann                     2                    , 						and Daniel Nanz                     1          
            
            1
           
           Department of Radiology, University Hospital 
						Zrich, Zrich, Switzerland,
           
            2
           
           Institute 
						of Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zrich, Zrich, 
						Switzerland,
           
            3
           
           Department 
						of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zrich, Zrich, 
						Switzerland,
           
            4
           
           Medical 
						Physics, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
          
            
          ICA has been widely used in task-based-fMRI in order to 
						separate independent signal components, without 
						supplying -priori knowledge of the paradigm. The aim of 
						this work was to identify and characterize signal 
						components that capture neuronal activation in 
						quantitative susceptibility data (QSM) acquired under 
						visual-stimulation. The effect of temporal-filtering on 
						activation maps, signal time-course and corresponding 
						power-spectra were investigated and results compared 
						with those from traditional BOLD analysis. There was a 
						strong correlation between BOLD and filtered QSM data. 
						ICA of QSM data seems promising for an accurate 
						localization of neuronal activation and a better 
						understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
         
 
            
				
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