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Abstract #3573

Task Based and Resting State fMRI for Pre-Surgical Mapping of Language Function

Madalina E. Tivarus1, 2, Bradford Z. Mahon3, 4, Ali Hussain1, Webster Pilcher5, Sven Ekholm1

1Department of Imaging Sciences , University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States; 2Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States; 3Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States; 4Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States; 5Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester, Rochester , NY, United States

Task fMRI has become a commonly used tool for assesing eloquent brain regions for pre-surgical planning. Resting state functional MRI, a method that examines spontaneous brain fluctuations, may be used as an alterantive when the patients have difficulty to comply with the instructions of task based fMRI. To determine if rsfMRI can be used to map language areas in individual patients, we compared the functional connectivity between classical language areas in rsFMRI and task based fMRI data.

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