Multimodal imaging in malignant brain tumors: enhancing the preoperative risk evaluation for motor deficits with a combined hybrid MRI-PET and navigated …

V Neuschmelting, CW Lucas… - American journal …, 2016 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Motor deficits in patients with brain tumors are caused
mainly by irreversible infiltration of the motor network or by indirect mass effects; these …

Combined magnetic resonance tractography and functional magnetic resonance imaging in evaluation of brain tumors involving the motor system

H Parmar, YY Sitoh, TT Yeo - Journal of computer assisted …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
The goal of neuro-oncologic surgery is to maximize tumor resection while preserving vital
brain functions. Identification of the relation between the tumor and adjacent functional …

Localisation of motor areas in brain tumour patients: a comparison of preoperative [18F]FDG-PET and intraoperative cortical electrostimulation

M Schreckenberger, U Spetzger, O Sabri… - European journal of …, 2001 - Springer
Assessment of the exact spatial relation between tumour and adjacent functionally relevant
brain areas is a primary tool in the presurgical planning in brain tumour patients. The …

Associations between clinical outcome and navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation characteristics in patients with motor-eloquent brain lesions: a combined …

N Sollmann, N Wildschuetz, A Kelm, N Conway… - Journal of …, 2017 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) and diffusion tensor
imaging fiber tracking (DTI FT) based on nTMS data are increasingly used for preoperative …

Reorganization of motor representations in patients with brain lesions: a navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation study

L Bulubas, N Sollmann, N Tanigawa, C Zimmer… - Brain topography, 2018 - Springer
This is an explorative study applying presurgical navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation
(nTMS) to investigate the spatial distributions of motor sites to reveal tumor-induced brain …

Intraoperative validation of functional magnetic resonance imaging and cortical reorganization patterns in patients with brain tumors involving the primary motor cortex

J Fandino, SS Kollias, HG Wieser, A Valavanis… - Journal of …, 1999 - thejns.org
Object. The purpose of the present study was to compare the results of functional magnetic
resonance (fMR) imaging with those of intraoperative cortical stimulation in patients who …

Motor areas of the frontal cortex in patients with motor eloquent brain lesions

L Bulubas, J Sabih, A Wohlschlaeger… - Journal of …, 2016 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Because of its huge clinical potential, the importance of premotor areas for
motor function itself and plastic reshaping due to tumors or ischemic brain lesions has …

Comparative study of preoperative functional imaging combined with tractography for prediction of iatrogenic motor deficits

M Muir, R Gadot, S Prinsloo, H Michener… - Journal of …, 2022 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Robust preoperative imaging can improve the extent of resection in patients
with brain tumors while minimizing postoperative neurological morbidity. Both structural and …

Preoperative mapping of cortical motor function: prospective comparison of functional magnetic resonance imaging and [15O]-H2O-positron emission tomography in …

MHT Reinges, T Krings, PT Meyer… - Nuclear medicine …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Background Two of the most widely accepted approaches to map eloquent cortical areas
preoperatively are positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance …

Evaluation of preoperative high magnetic field motor functional MRI (3 Tesla) in glioma patients by navigated electrocortical stimulation and postoperative outcome

K Rössler, M Donat, R Lanzenberger… - Journal of Neurology …, 2005 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objectives: The validity of 3 Tesla motor functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in
patients with gliomas involving the primary motor cortex was investigated by intraoperative …