Bruker BioSpin (Germany) 1 article published in JoVE Neuroscience Real-Time fMRI Brain Mapping in Animals Sangcheon Choi1,2, Kengo Takahashi1,2, Yuanyuan Jiang1,3, Sascha Köhler4, Hang Zeng1,2, Qi Wang1,2, Yan Ma1,2, Xin Yu1,3 1Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 2Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, 3MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 4Bruker BioSpin Animal brain functional mapping can benefit from the real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experimental set-up. Using the latest software implemented in the animal MRI system, we established a real-time monitoring platform for small animal fMRI.