Intraoperative functional MRI as a new approach to monitor deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease

Autor: Christoph Wedekind, Klaus Lackner, Mohammad Maarouf, Volker Sturm, Oliver Schulte, Volker Hesselmann, Barbara Krug, Ralf Girnus, Bettina Sorger, Jürgen Bunke, Kathrin Lasek
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: European radiology. 14(4)
ISSN: 0938-7994
Popis: This article deals with technical aspects of intraoperative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for monitoring the effect of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a patient with Parkinson's disease. Under motor activation, therapeutic high-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus was accompanied by an activation decrease in the contralateral primary sensorimotor cortex and the ipsilateral cerebellum. Furthermore, an activation increase in the contralateral basal ganglia and insula region were detected. These findings demonstrate that fMRI constitutes a promising clinical application for investigating brain activity changes induced by DBS.
Databáze: OpenAIRE