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Abstract #3271

Improving Coil Setup and Data Processing Strategies for Concurrent (f)MRI and Brain-Stimulation Studies

Michael Burke1, Yiwu Xiong1, Lorena Melo1, Kuri Takahashi1, Emilio Chiappini1, and Erhan Genc1
1Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Data Processing, fMRI, brain stimulation

Motivation: In concurrent MRI-brain-stimulation studies various coil setups are used which show either limited access or limited spatial signal coverage.

Goal(s): Our goal is to come up with an optimized coil setup and data processing strategy that allow for open access to the head while maintaining whole brain imaging capabilities.

Approach: Three commonly used coil setups (head array, wrapped body array, TMS surface coil) where used and spatial signal homogenization as well as multi-echo fMRI postprocessing strategies were applied.

Results: By comparing various data processing strategies we were able to improve similarity of activation patterns across the different coil setups used.

Impact: Our results will help to improve researchers to chose optimized data acquistion and postprocessing strategies for whole brain and network based fMRI studies in concurrent brain-stimulation and MRI investigations.

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