• Peter Mannfolk, Markus Nilsson, Henrik Hansson, Freddy Ståhlberg, Peter Fransson, Andreas Weibull, Jonas Svensson, Ronnie Wirestam, and Johan Olsrud.
• Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Sweden. peter.mannfolk@med.lu.se
• J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Sep 1;34(3):511-7.

PurposeTo investigate if resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) reliably can serve as a complement to task-based fMRI for presurgical mapping of the sensorimotor cortex.Materials And MethodsFunctional data were obtained in 10 healthy volunteers using a 3 Tesla MRI system. Each subject performed five bilateral finger tapping experiments interleaved with five resting-state experiments. Following preprocessing, data from eight volunteers were further analyzed with the general linear model (finger tapping data) and independent component analysis (rest data). Test-retest reliability estimates (hit rate and false alarm rate) for resting-state fMRI activation of the sensorimotor network were compared with the reliability estimates for task-evoked activation of the sensorimotor cortex. The reliability estimates constituted a receiver operating characteristics curve from which the area under the curve (AUC) was calculated. Statistical testing was performed to compare the two groups with respect to reliability.ResultsThe AUC was generally higher for the task experiments, although median AUC was not significantly different on a group level. Also, the two groups showed comparable levels of within-group variance.ConclusionTest-retest reliability was comparable between resting-state measurements and task-based fMRI, suggesting that presurgical mapping of functional networks can be a supplement to task-based fMRI in cases where patient status excludes task-based fMRI.Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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