Real-time functional MRI for patient monitoring during a language task

Monitoring patients´ cooperation for a given cognitive task is required in the clinical fMRI. The current study is aiming to develop a real-time fMRI platform to monitor the patient performance during the language task, which is usually done covertly. Successive estimation of task-related activation, deactivation and inter-regional connectivity was performed to evaluate patient´s task involvement. The effect of scan numbers was assessed to determine minimal scan numbers in detecting the brain status. The preliminary results demonstrated the feasibility of real-time patient monitoring in the neurosurgical application of fMRI.