I am on the process of pre-processing the resting fMRI data.
By doing this, I have the following question.
I am about to use the script (3dTshift) with ignoring the first 4 volumes by using -ignore 4.
Then, in the output data by the 3dTshift, are there remaining information about the ignored ones?
Will it affect the following pre-processing and/or processing analyses such as motion correction?
As most of fMRI papers mention that they have discarded first several volumes for data quality, I would like to ignore the first volumes.
Then, by using the -ignore options in the 3dTshift, will the 4 volumes be ignored throughout the subsequent analyses?
Or should I use 3dTcat for concatenating the data except for the 4 volumes after the 3dTshift?
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