P 12 Integrating nTMS motor mapping of the M1 tongue area into diffusion tractography to reconstruct motor-speech pathways

The preservation of important white matter tracts is extremely important to optimize the functional long-term outcome after brain tumour surgery. The integration of functional localizer data such as navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) as starting region of interest (ROI) within the primary motor cortex (M1) into diffusion-tensor-imaging- (DTI-) tractography algorithms represents a recent advancement of the methodology with regard to the reconstruction of the corticospinal tract (CST).

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