HI!
In a region close to the region where you can expect the suseptibility artifact, I do not constantly get a signal. However, I am also interested in getting valid statistics for this region in an across goup statistic. That means for this region I do not always get a valid intensity value, because in subjects with no signal in this region, I actually would have to exclude these voxels from an analysis, which would reduce the N.
As I assume all 3dANOVA programs do simply use all values (if valid or not) and calculate statistics. Basicly I think the N is the same for all voxels and is simply the number of subjects. Right? .... Not discarding empty (or nearly emty cells).
I would appreciate any comment what other straight forward you could think of than doing a ROI based analysis in a subsample of subjects with reasonable good signal in this area.
Thanks,
Lukas