Hi,
I recently noticed some ringing artifact on our fMRI images. It appears that this happens after volume registration using 3dvolreg (which we run after despiking and time shifting the data). We thought it was related to using the Fourier option in volreg but the ringing artifact is evident even when using cubic interpolation. This pattern is evident on all our images and I did not notice earlier because it only becomes apparent in the AFNI window when setting the image in question as an overlay (due to the way the values are auto scaled and color coded). Although you can't really tell on the images attached, the values outside of the brain gradually become smaller (e.g., a value of four closest to the brain and a value of 1 further away).
I'm curious if others see a similar pattern and if it is something to worry about if this ringing also evident inside the brain.
Thanks,
Jatin