Michalina Justyna Ryn1, Michael Erb2,
Uwe Klose3
1Diagnostic and Interventional
Neuroradiology, University Hospital Tuebingen , Tuebingen, Baden-Wunterberg,
Germany; 2Sektion Experimentelle Kernspinresonanz des ZNS,
University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Baden-Wunterberg; 3Diagnostic
and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen,
Baden-Wunterberg, Germany
Analysis
of functional connectivity can be useful tool which can describe the
correlation between functionally related regions. This study was performed
with seven volunteers on a 3T scanner. Time courses from auditory cortex were
used as references in correlation analysis in individual subject. Similarity
of the time courses demonstrated the connection between structures in
auditory pathway and gives the reason to applied correlation analysis.
Results demonstrate a tight functional relation between auditory cortex and
brainstem in the human brain and provide an improvement in the t-test
analysis about location of activated areas within the brainstem by
correlation analysis