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. 2021 Jan 18;11:608475. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.608475

TABLE 2.

Summary of the most common rs-fMRI CVR methodologies based on BOLD signal variation metrics.

Metric Computation
Signal Variation Whole spectrum RSFA σEPI
CV σEPIμEPI
PF σEPI2-σthermal2μEPI
Low frequency ALFF k:fk[fmin;fmax]|FFT|fk2Nnk
fALFF ALFFm:fm[0;fmax]|FFT|fm2Nnm

σ, temporal standard deviation; μ, temporal mean; σthermal2, temporal variance due to thermal noise; FFT, Fast Fourier transform; f, frequency range; k, number of bins within a specific frequency range; m, number of bins of the entire frequency range; fmin, minimum frequency; fmax, maximum frequency; N, number of time points; n, number of frequency bins.