Extraction of overt verbal response from the acoustic noise in a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan by use of segmented active noise cancellation
✍ Scribed by Kwan-Jin Jung; Parikshit Prasad; Yulin Qin; John R. Anderson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 620 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0740-3194
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A method to extract the subject's overt verbal response from the obscuring acoustic noise in an fMRI scan is developed by applying active noise cancellation with a conventional MRI microphone. Since the EPI scanning and its accompanying acoustic noise in fMRI are repetitive, the acoustic noise in one time segment was used as a reference noise in suppressing the acoustic noise in subsequent segments. However, the acoustic noise from the scanner was affected by the subject's movements, so the reference noise was adaptively adjusted as the scanner's acoustic properties varied in time. This method was successfully applied to a cognitive fMRI experiment with overt verbal responses. Magn Reson Med 53:739–744, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.