Hello,
I acquired rs-fmri using an SMS factor of 2 and the data set consists of 20 (2x10) slices. I recorded the cardiac and the respiratory signal during the scan. I am unsure how I could regress out the physiological noise with 3dRetroicor as two slices are read out simultaneously (0&10,1&11,2&12 a.s.o.). Further my TR is much longer than the actual slice acquisition, i.e. the TR is mainly dead time. In the 3dRetroicor documentation it says:
"This program uses slice timing information embedded in the
dataset to estimate the proper cardiac/respiratory phase for
each slice."
How is this exactly implemented? Is there a more detailed documentation? Does it divide the TR by the number of slices and estimates at what time point the slice was acquired and match it to the corresponding cardiac/respiratory phase?
Many thanks,
Olivia