TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of surgical mask on fMRI signals during task and rest
AU - Klugah-Brown, Benjamin
AU - Yu, Yue
AU - Hu, Peng
AU - Agoalikum, Elijah
AU - Liu, Congcong
AU - Liu, Xiqin
AU - Yang, Xi
AU - Zeng, Yixu
AU - Zhou, Xinqi
AU - Yu, Xin
AU - Rypma, Bart
AU - Michael, Andrew M.
AU - Li, Xiaobo
AU - Becker, Benjamin
AU - Biswal, Bharat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Wearing a face mask has become essential to contain the spread of COVID-19 and has become mandatory when collecting fMRI data at most research institutions. Here, we investigate the effects of wearing a surgical mask on fMRI data in n = 37 healthy participants. Activations during finger tapping, emotional face matching, working memory tasks, and rest were examined. Preliminary fMRI analyses show that despite the different mask states, resting-state signals and task activations were relatively similar. Resting-state functional connectivity showed negligible attenuation patterns in mask-on compared with mask-off. Task-based ROI analysis also demonstrated no significant difference between the two mask states under each contrast investigated. Notwithstanding the overall insignificant effects, these results indicate that wearing a face mask during fMRI has little to no significant effect on resting-state and task activations.
AB - Wearing a face mask has become essential to contain the spread of COVID-19 and has become mandatory when collecting fMRI data at most research institutions. Here, we investigate the effects of wearing a surgical mask on fMRI data in n = 37 healthy participants. Activations during finger tapping, emotional face matching, working memory tasks, and rest were examined. Preliminary fMRI analyses show that despite the different mask states, resting-state signals and task activations were relatively similar. Resting-state functional connectivity showed negligible attenuation patterns in mask-on compared with mask-off. Task-based ROI analysis also demonstrated no significant difference between the two mask states under each contrast investigated. Notwithstanding the overall insignificant effects, these results indicate that wearing a face mask during fMRI has little to no significant effect on resting-state and task activations.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85138258730
U2 - 10.1038/s42003-022-03908-6
DO - 10.1038/s42003-022-03908-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 36130993
AN - SCOPUS:85138258730
SN - 2399-3642
VL - 5
JO - Communications Biology
JF - Communications Biology
IS - 1
M1 - 1004
ER -