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Abstract #3709

A High-Field Human Brain Interface Using a Modular Virtual Environment System for Real Time FMRI

Charles Mueller1, Ramona Grzeschik1, Maurice Hollmann1, Sebastian Baecke1, Ralf Ltzkendorf1, Johannes Bernarding1

1Department of Biometry and Medical Informatics, Medical Faculty, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany


The field of virtual reality (VR) environments and neurofeedback applications for functional magnetic resonance imaging is huge. Some groups applied VR for fMRI-based neurofeedback paradigms and human brain interfaces. Our aim is the development and implementation of a VR paradigm library with some common VR scenes and a well-structured modular virtual environment system that allows the import of these virtual reality measurement paradigms just by few mouse clicks. For testing, we used our system as a real time human brain interface where subjects navigated through a three-dimensional maze using brain activations of different cortical areas.