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. 2018 Jul 17;5:180134. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.134

Figure 3. The distributions of several representative QA measures of the resting-state fMRI data across the participants.

Figure 3

SNR is the abbreviation for the signal-to-noise ratio. This ratio indicates the mean intensity within the grey matter divided by the standard deviation of the values outside the brain. Higher values are better. FBER is the abbreviation for the foreground to background energy ratio. This ratio indicates the variance among the voxels inside the brain divided by the variance among the voxels outside the brain. Higher values are better. Mean FD refers to the mean fractional displacement-Jenkinson. It is a measure of subject head motion that compares the motion between the current and previous volumes. Mean FD is calculated by summing the absolute value of the displacement changes in the x, y and z directions and rotational changes about those three axes. The rotational changes are given as distance values based on the changes across the surface of a sphere with a radius of 80 mm. Lower values are better.