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Output BOLD-only phase response (δφ) time series #43

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What would you like to see added in fMRIPost-Phase?

Issue #3 flags complex-valued GLM and spatial-source-phase ICA as possibly out of scope, and downstream modeling probably does belong elsewhere. However, the δφ time series itself is just a derivative, not a modeling choice — computing it via complex division relative to a reference frame is straightforward and lets downstream users do whatever modeling they prefer (standard GLM on phase, complex-valued analyses externally, phase-only connectivity) without fMRIPost-Phase taking a position.

Proposed output:

  • <source_entities>[_space-<label>]_desc-deltaPhase_bold.nii.gz — temporal phase changes relative to a reference timepoint, extracted via complex division, in radians

Reference frame choice (middle volume vs. mean vs. median) probably warrants a CLI flag.

  • Chen, Z., Calhoun, V. (2018). Effect of objective dynamic information on the phase information in functional MRI BOLD signal. (complex-division extraction of δφ)
  • Chen, J.E. et al. (2019). Resting-state "physiological networks". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431653/ (δφ-based RS-FC showing different sparseness/balance properties than magnitude FC)

Smaller-scope alternative to fully implementing #3; the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Do you have any interest in helping implement the feature?

Yes

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