Extremely Large Euclidean Norms

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Hi all. Wanted to see if anyone else had run into this before.

I used AFNI’s 3dTo1D to calculate the euclidean norm, expecting it to be RELATIVELY similar to FD. However, the values I’ve gotten for the output are EXTREMELY high.

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This is SMS data, so I’m aware it should be notch filtered prior to any nuisance regression, but I am not doing so because what I’m examining is the relationship of the motion/respiration to independent components.

I’d like to know if I’m reading this right, because it looks like I have pretty large motion differences between my two conditions.

Has anyone encountered this before? Or is this a massive scaling SNAFU on my part?

These are the commands I used:

3dTto1D -input sub-${subjectID}/Session1/func/closed/sub-${subjectID}_Session1_task-restclosed_bold.nii.gz -method enorm -mask sub-${subjectID}/Session1/func/closed/Masked_Skullstripped_SBref_sub-${subjectID}_Session1_task-restclosed_bold.nii.gz -prefix $motiondir/sub-${subjectID}_ENORM.1D

1dplot -volreg -sepscl -jpg $motiondir/sub-${subjectID}_ENORM.jpg $motiondir/sub-${subjectID}_ENORM.1D

Thanks in advance.

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Update:

This seems to happen regardless of what method I use. Ended up with DVARs values in the hundreds.

fsl_motion_outliers doesn’t seem to be having this issue so it’s likely the way I’m passing the data to 3dTo1D.

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Hello,

You are currently computing the Euclidean norm of the EPI data, but probably want to compute it from the 6 motion parameters. Do you have a text file of the 6 motion parameters? If so, 1d_tool.py can be used to compute the enorm from those. See example 9 from “1d_tool.py -help”.

3dTto1D can compute the enorm of the motion parameters, too (see example E3), but 1d_tool.py is a more general tool for data such as motion parameters.

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