Several books have been written on DBS-related topics, primarily focusing on clini­cal and technical aspects of the treatment from neurological and neurosurgical per­spectives. However, few of those books have focused on the role of neuroimaging, specifically MRI, in DBS surgery. With recent advances in neuroimaging technol­ogy and its increasingly prominent role, we felt that it would be timely for the DBS community to have an all-in-one resource summarizing the roles of MRI in DBS. We wanted to discuss the established as well as the innovative roles of MRI spanning the preoperative and postoperative...