You have a physiological monitoring system, now what? A practical guide to acquiring and quality checking your own data

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During this session, we will provide attendees with the opportunity to assess good-quality physiological measurements and prepare the data for use in neuroimaging workflows. A demonstration of photoplethysmography (PPG) and respiratory belt acquisition will allow attendees to learn current best practices during data collection in an MR scanner environment as well as some open-source tools (e.g., Physiopy:phys2bids) that are available to them. While observing first-hand physiological data acquisition, attendees will learn how to assess and improve the quality of their data. After becoming familiar with how to assess physiological measurements, we will go through a tutorial on how to use these data for denoising fMRI imaging and physiological imaging. Attendees will leave this session with 1) an improved ability to assess the quality of their physiological measurements and 2) a better understanding of how physiological data can be leveraged in fMRI data.