title: [Preoperative location of major language functional cerebral areas using functional magnetic resonance imaging].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To design a set of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tasks to activate the major Chinese language functional areas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eight volunteers and 3 patients received fMRI studies with the tasks of semantic judgment, word reading and listening comprehension. Brain activation map of each task was obtained after standard fMRI data processing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The fMRI examination with 3 tasks activated middle frontal gyrus (BA 9), Broca area and Wernicke area respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A set of fMRI examinations, including semantic judgment, word reading and listening comprehension, can activate the major Chinese language functional areas steadily and may be used as a preoperative localizer of language areas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China.
authors.forename: Jin-xing
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ji-zong
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yi-bing
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult