title: Quantitative comparisons on hand motor functional areas determined by resting state and task BOLD fMRI and anatomical MRI for pre-surgical planning of patients with brain tumors.
abstract: For pre-surgical planning we present quantitative comparison of the location of the hand motor functional area determined by right hand finger tapping BOLD fMRI, resting state BOLD fMRI, and anatomically using high resolution T1 weighted images. Data were obtained on 10 healthy subjects and 25 patients with left sided brain tumors. Our results show that there are important differences in the locations (i.e., > 20 mm) of the determined hand motor voxels by these three MR imaging methods. This can have significant effect on the pre-surgical planning of these patients depending on the modality used. In 13 of the 25 cases (i.e., 52%) the distances between the task-determined and the rs-fMRI determined hand areas were more than 20 mm; in 13 of 25 cases (i.e., 52%) the distances between the task-determined and anatomically determined hand areas were > 20 mm; and in 16 of 25 cases (i.e., 64%) the distances between the rs-fMRI determined and anatomically determined hand areas were more than 20 mm. In just three cases, the distances determined by all three modalities were within 20 mm of each other. The differences in the location or fingerprint of the hand motor areas, as determined by these three MR methods result from the different underlying mechanisms of these three modalities and possibly the effects of tumors on these modalities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, WVU, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA. Electronic address: bhou@hsc.wvu.edu.
authors.forename: Bob L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, WVU, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhatia
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, WVU, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Carpenter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D012146:Rest; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Anatomical T1wighted images; Brain tumor; Localizing hand motor area; Task- and resting state-functional MR images