ANALYSIS OF RESECTION OF BRAIN TUMOR IN ELOQUENT AREA USING fMRI

KAMAT A.U.¹, SHYLAJA M.², PATTAR S.Y.³, SUMA H.N.⁴, PANDA R.^5
1Department of Medical Electronics, BMS College of Engineering Bangalore- 560 019, Karnataka, India.
²Department of Medical Electronics, BMS College of Engineering Bangalore- 560 019, Karnataka, India.
³Department of Medical Electronics, BMS College of Engineering Bangalore- 560 019, Karnataka, India.
⁴Department of Medical Electronics, BMS College of Engineering Bangalore- 560 019, Karnataka, India.
⁵Department of Cognitive Neoroscience, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore- 560 029, Karnataka, India.

Received : 30-07-2013     Accepted : 10-01-2014     Published : 30-04-2014
Volume : 2     Issue : 1       Pages : 10 - 16
Bioinfo Med Imag 2.1 (2014):10-16

Conflict of Interest : None declared

Resection of tumor in eloquent areas of brain represents a challenge in neuro surgery. In this study, we have attempted to come up with a methodology in which we process the fMRI image of a patient with brain tumor .We have made a detailed observation of the activation in eloquent areas of the brain during an ongoing motor task through SPM software. In this paper, activation in brain areas of a tumor patient while performing motor task has been compared with that of a normal subject. The difference in activated areas has been used to analyze the effect of tumor in areas used to perform motor task. Subsequently, a detailed statistical analysis has been done to locate the exact position of activation so as to determine the amount of risk involved in tumor resection.