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.