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Abstract #4170

fMRI resting state is a valid substitute of traditional task-related fMRI in pre-surgical mapping?

Marta Maieron 1 , Barbara Tomasino 2 , Serena D'Agostini 3 , Miran Skrap 4 , and Ferdinando Calzolari 5

1 SOC Medical Physics, AOU - S. Maria della Misericordia di Udine, Udine, UDINE, Italy, 2 IRCCS Medea: Nostra Famiglia, Pasian di Prato, Udine, Italy, 3 SOC of Neuroradiology, AOU S. Maria della Misericordia di Udine, Udine, Italy, 4 SOC of Neurosurgery, AOU S. Maria della Misericordia di Udine, Udine, Udine, Italy, 5 SOC of Neuroradiology, AOU S. Maria della Misericordia di Udine, Udine, Udine, Italy

In a routine clinical practice, fMRI plays an important role ad non-invasive tool for pre-surgical functional mapping of eloquent cortex. The standard approach is to acquire fMRI data while the patient perform a task designed to target a specific function. However there are some limitations: the patients can have difficulty in performing required tasks and the task-based approaches may be unreliable. Functional mapping based on spontaneous intrinsic activity, referred to as resting state fMRI, offers a different option for presurgical mapping. The aim of our study was to confirm the important role that this methods could have in clinical field.

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