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Abstract #0238

A comparison of multi-echo and single-echo fMRI resting state mapping in neurosurgical patients

Ahmed Radwan1, Louise Emsell1, Ronald Peeters2, Tom Theys3, Patrick Dupont4, and Stefan Sunaert1
1Department of Imaging and pathology, Translational MRI, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3Department of Neurosciences, Research Group Experimental Neurosurgery and Neuroanatomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 4Department of Neurosciences, Laboratory for Cognitive Neurology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Synopsis

Keywords: Brain Connectivity, fMRI (resting state), multi-echo fMRI, NeurosurgeryWe compared multi-echo (mTE) resting-state (rs) fMRI to single-echo (sTE) fMRI for seed-based mapping of seven canonical resting state networks (RSN) in 69 pre-surgical patients. Acquisition parameters were identical except for TE and statistical analyses were constrained by group-specific RSN masks. mTE-rsfMRI showed significantly higher functional-connectivity (fc) for all RSNs, while sTE showed comparatively fewer RSNs with areas of significantly higher fc (PFWE<0.05). Our results suggest that mTE-rsfMRI may be more sensitive than sTE-rsfMRI for mapping of the sensory-motor, default mode, salience, frontoparietal, dorsal attention, language and visual networks in a neurosurgical setting.

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