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. 2016 Mar 23;37(7):2385–2397. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23180

Table 3.

Effect of micro‐motion on estimates of cortical gray matter volume, surface area, cortical thickness and surface curvature (CIVET pipeline and FreeSurfer pipeline) for adult sample only

Anatomical metric CIVET processing pipeline FreeSurfer processing pipeline
Change per 0.1 mm framewise motion (95% CI) t statistic P (FDR‐corrected) Change per 0.1 mm framewise motion (95% CI) t statistic P (FDR‐corrected)
Total brain volume
Gray matter −47.1 cm3 (−92.7, −1.5) −2.02 0.049 −42.8 cm3 (−76.6, −9.0) −2.48 0.016
White matter −22.3 cm3 (−54.7, 10.1) −1.35 0.184 −33.5 cm3 (−67.3, 0.3) −1.95 0.057
CSF −6.8 cm3 (−23.2, 9.6) −0.82 0.429 −2.08 cm3 (−6.8, 2.7) −0.86 0.39
Lobar volume
Frontal −17.0 cm3 (−31.0, −3.1) −2.39 0.027 −13.3 cm3 (−24.4, −2.3) −2.38 0.042
Parietal −3.0 cm3 (−10.7, 4.8) −0.75 0.458 −3.9 cm3 (−12.7, 4.9) −0.86 0.10
Temporal −14.5 cm3 (−26.0, −3099) −2.49 0.027 −8.4 cm3 (−14.9, −1.9) −2.53 0.042
Occipital −7.0 cm3 (−12.4, −1.6) −2.55 0.027 −3.6 cm3 (−7.2, 0.1) −1.92 0.08
Lobar surface area
Frontal −37.2 cm2 (−68.1, −6.4) −2.36 0.056 −42.4 cm2 (−79.3, −5.5) −2.26 0.11
Parietal −5.6 cm2 (−28.1, 16.8) −0.49 0.626 −15.8 cm2 (−45.3, 13.8) −1.05 0.30
Temporal −21.1 cm2 (−39.3, −2.8) −2.26 0.056 −16.9 cm2 (−35.5, −1.7) −1.78 0.16
Occipital −9.7 cm2 (−22.5, 3.1) −1.49 0.190 −9.4 cm2 (−23.4, 4.6) −1.32 0.26
Lobar cortical thickness
Frontal −0.077 mm (−.187, 0.033) −1.37 0.237 −0.011 mm (−0.081, 0.059) −0.30 0.93
Parietal −0.0568 mm (−0.154, 0.041) −1.14 0.258 0.003 mm (−0.0071, 0.079) 0.09 0.93
Temporal −0.111 mm (−0.215, −0.007) −2.09 0.082 −0.084 mm (−0.154, 0.013) −2.33 0.09
Occipital −0.113 mm (−0.24, −0.0257) −2.43 0.074 −0.027 mm (−0.081, 0.027) −0.99 0.66
Lobar mean curvature
Frontal 0.0041 mm−1 (0.0010, 0.0072) 2.61 0.02
Parietal 0.0037 mm−1 (0.0007, 0.0066) 2.42 0.03
Temporal 0.0049 mm−1 (0.0017, 0.0080) 3.06 0.01
Occipital 0.0040 mm−1 (−0.0007, 0.0089) 1.64 0.11
Lobar Gaussian curvature
Frontal 0.097 mm−2 (−0.067, 0.26) 1.16 0.33
Parietal 0.014 mm−2 (−0.005, 0.033) 1.47 0.29
Temporal 0.019 mm−2 (0.002, 0.036) 2.16 0.14
Occipital −0.011 mm−2 (−0.043, 0.022) −0.64 0.52

Statistical association with micro‐motion for CIVET and FreeSurfer output, for subjects 18 years or over only. Linear models were fit in R with age and gender as covariates. N = 58 subjects (27 females); mean age = 23.4 (sd = 3.8, range = 18–34); average framewise motion = 0.08 mm (sd = 0.04, range = 0.02–0.27); one scan per family