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Catchlove SJ, Parrish TB, Chen Y, Macpherson H, Hughes ME, Pipingas A. Regional Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Cognitive Performance in Healthy Aging. J Exp Neurosci 2018; 12:1179069518785151. [PMID: 30013388 PMCID: PMC6043917 DOI: 10.1177/1179069518785151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 06/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) reflects the response of brain blood vessels to vasoactive stimuli, such as neural activity. The current research assessed age-related changes in regional CVR to 5% CO2 inhalation in younger (n = 30, range: 21-45 years) and older (n = 29, range: 55-75 years) adults, and the contribution of regional CVR to cognitive performance using blood-oxygen-level dependent contrast imaging (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at 3T field strength. CVR was measured by inducing hypercapnia using a block-design paradigm under physiological monitoring. Memory and attention were assessed with a comprehensive computerized aging battery. MRI data analysis was conducted using MATLAB® and SPM12. Memory and attention performance was positively associated with CVR in the temporal cortices. Temporal lobe CVR influenced memory performance independently of age, gender, and education level. When analyzing age groups separately, CVR in the hippocampus contributed significantly to memory score in the older group and was also related to subjective memory complaints. No associations between CVR and cognition were observed in younger adults. Vascular responsiveness in the brain has consequences for cognition in cognitively healthy people. These findings may inform other areas of research concerned with vaso-protective approaches for prevention or treatment of neurocognitive decline.
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- Sarah J Catchlove
- Centre for Human Psychopharmacology,
Swinburne University, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
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- Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Institute for Physical Activity and
Nutrition, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne
University, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
- Australian National Imaging Facility, St
Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Human Psychopharmacology,
Swinburne University, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
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Chen JJ. Cerebrovascular-Reactivity Mapping Using MRI: Considerations for Alzheimer's Disease. Front Aging Neurosci 2018; 10:170. [PMID: 29922153 PMCID: PMC5996106 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with well-established macrostructural and cellular markers, including localized brain atrophy and deposition of amyloid. However, there is growing recognition of the link between cerebrovascular dysfunction and AD, supported by continuous experimental evidence in the animal and human literature. As a result, neuroimaging studies of AD are increasingly aiming to incorporate vascular measures, exemplified by measures of cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR). CVR is a measure that is rooted in clinical practice, and as non-invasive CVR-mapping techniques become more widely available, routine CVR mapping may open up new avenues of investigation into the development of AD. This review focuses on the use of MRI to map CVR, paying specific attention to recent developments in MRI methodology and on the emerging stimulus-free approaches to CVR mapping. It also summarizes the biological basis for the vascular contribution to AD, and provides critical perspective on the choice of CVR-mapping techniques amongst frail populations.
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- J J Chen
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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van Niftrik CHB, Piccirelli M, Bozinov O, Maldaner N, Strittmatter C, Pangalu A, Valavanis A, Regli L, Fierstra J. Impact of baseline CO 2 on Blood-Oxygenation-Level-Dependent MRI measurements of cerebrovascular reactivity and task-evoked signal activation. Magn Reson Imaging 2018; 49:123-130. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2018.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Revised: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Chen JJ. Functional MRI of brain physiology in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Neuroimage 2018; 187:209-225. [PMID: 29793062 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2017] [Revised: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 05/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Brain aging and associated neurodegeneration constitute a major societal challenge as well as one for the neuroimaging community. A full understanding of the physiological mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration still eludes medical researchers, fuelling the development of in vivo neuroimaging markers. Hence it is increasingly recognized that our understanding of neurodegenerative processes likely will depend upon the available information provided by imaging techniques. At the same time, the imaging techniques are often developed in response to the desire to observe certain physiological processes. In this context, functional MRI (fMRI), which has for decades provided information on neuronal activity, has evolved into a large family of techniques well suited for in vivo observations of brain physiology. Given the rapid technical advances in fMRI in recent years, this review aims to summarize the physiological basis of fMRI observations in healthy aging as well as in age-related neurodegeneration. This review focuses on in-vivo human brain imaging studies in this review and on disease features that can be imaged using fMRI methods. In addition to providing detailed literature summaries, this review also discusses future directions in the study of brain physiology using fMRI in the clinical setting.
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- J Jean Chen
- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada.
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Liu P, De Vis JB, Lu H. Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) MRI with CO2 challenge: A technical review. Neuroimage 2018; 187:104-115. [PMID: 29574034 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2017] [Revised: 02/06/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is an indicator of cerebrovascular reserve and provides important information about vascular health in a range of brain conditions and diseases. Unlike steady-state vascular parameters, such as cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral blood volume (CBV), CVR measures the ability of cerebral vessels to dilate or constrict in response to challenges or maneuvers. Therefore, CVR mapping requires a physiological challenge while monitoring the corresponding hemodynamic changes in the brain. The present review primarily focuses on methods that use CO2 inhalation as a physiological challenge while monitoring changes in hemodynamic MRI signals. CO2 inhalation has been increasingly used in CVR mapping in recent literature due to its potency in causing vasodilation, rapid onset and cessation of the effect, as well as advances in MRI-compatible gas delivery apparatus. In this review, we first discuss the physiological basis of CVR mapping using CO2 inhalation. We then review the methodological aspects of CVR mapping, including gas delivery apparatus, the timing paradigm of the breathing challenge, the MRI imaging sequence, and data analysis. In addition, we review alternative approaches for CVR mapping that do not require CO2 inhalation.
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- Peiying Liu
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, United States.
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, United States; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21287, United States; F.M. Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, 21205, United States
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Measuring Cerebral Hypoperfusion Induced by Hyperventilation Challenge With Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Healthy Volunteers. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2018; 42:85-91. [PMID: 28708726 DOI: 10.1097/rct.0000000000000640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility to assess cerebral hypoperfusion with a hyperventilation (HV) challenge protocol using intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) magnetic resonance imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS Magnetic resonance imaging experiments were performed on 10 healthy volunteers at 1.5 T, with a diffusion IVIM magnetic resonance imaging protocol using a set of b-values optimized by Cramer-Rao Lower Bound analysis. Hypoperfusion was induced by an HV maneuver. Measurements were performed in normoventilation and HV conditions. Biexponential curve fitting was used to obtain the perfusion fraction (f), pseudodiffusion coefficient (D*), and the product fD* in gray matter (GM) regions of interest (ROIs). Regional cerebral blood flow in the same ROIs was also assessed with arterial spin labeling. RESULTS The HV challenge led to a diminution of IVIM perfusion-related parameters, with a decrease of f and fD* in the cerebellum (P = 0.03 for f; P = 0.01 for fD*), thalamus GM (P = 0.09 for f; P = 0.01 for fD*), and lenticular nuclei (P = 0.03 for f; P = 0.02 for fD*). Mean GM cerebral blood flow (in mL/100 g tissue/min) measured with arterial spin labeling averaged over all ROIs also decreased (normoventilation: 42.7 ± 4.1 vs HV: 33.2 ± 2.2, P = 0.004) during the HV challenge. CONCLUSIONS The optimized IVIM protocol proposed in the current study allows for measurements of cerebral hypoperfusion that might be of great interest for pathologies diagnosis such as ischemic stroke.
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Gagnon L, Sakadžić S, Lesage F, Pouliot P, Dale AM, Devor A, Buxton RB, Boas DA. Validation and optimization of hypercapnic-calibrated fMRI from oxygen-sensitive two-photon microscopy. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 371:rstb.2015.0359. [PMID: 27574311 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Hypercapnic-calibrated fMRI allows the estimation of the relative changes in the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (rCMRO2) from combined BOLD and arterial spin labelling measurements during a functional task, and promises to permit more quantitative analyses of brain activity patterns. The estimation relies on a macroscopic model of the BOLD effect that balances oxygen delivery and consumption to predict haemoglobin oxygenation and the BOLD signal. The accuracy of calibrated fMRI approaches has not been firmly established, which is limiting their broader adoption. We use our recently developed microscopic vascular anatomical network model in mice as a ground truth simulator to test the accuracy of macroscopic, lumped-parameter BOLD models. In particular, we investigate the original Davis model and a more recent heuristic simplification. We find that these macroscopic models are inaccurate using the originally defined parameters, but that the accuracy can be significantly improved by redefining the model parameters to take on new values. In particular, we find that the parameter α that relates cerebral blood-volume changes to cerebral blood-flow changes is significantly smaller than typically assumed and that the optimal value changes with magnetic field strength. The results are encouraging in that they support the use of simple BOLD models to quantify BOLD signals, but further work is needed to understand the physiological interpretation of the redefined model parameters.This article is part of the themed issue 'Interpreting BOLD: a dialogue between cognitive and cellular neuroscience'.
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- Louis Gagnon
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA Department of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Deparment of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Deparment of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Deparment of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Neurosciences and Radiology, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA Department of Neurosciences and Radiology, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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Black DF, Vachha B, Mian A, Faro SH, Maheshwari M, Sair HI, Petrella JR, Pillai JJ, Welker K. American Society of Functional Neuroradiology-Recommended fMRI Paradigm Algorithms for Presurgical Language Assessment. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2017; 38:E65-E73. [PMID: 28860215 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a5345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Functional MR imaging is increasingly being used for presurgical language assessment in the treatment of patients with brain tumors, epilepsy, vascular malformations, and other conditions. The inherent complexity of fMRI, which includes numerous processing steps and selective analyses, is compounded by institution-unique approaches to patient training, paradigm choice, and an eclectic array of postprocessing options from various vendors. Consequently, institutions perform fMRI in such markedly different manners that data sharing, comparison, and generalization of results are difficult. The American Society of Functional Neuroradiology proposes widespread adoption of common fMRI language paradigms as the first step in countering this lost opportunity to advance our knowledge and improve patient care. LANGUAGE PARADIGM REVIEW PROCESS A taskforce of American Society of Functional Neuroradiology members from multiple institutions used a broad literature review, member polls, and expert opinion to converge on 2 sets of standard language paradigms that strike a balance between ease of application and clinical usefulness. ASFNR RECOMMENDATIONS The taskforce generated an adult language paradigm algorithm for presurgical language assessment including the following tasks: Sentence Completion, Silent Word Generation, Rhyming, Object Naming, and/or Passive Story Listening. The pediatric algorithm includes the following tasks: Sentence Completion, Rhyming, Antonym Generation, or Passive Story Listening. DISCUSSION Convergence of fMRI language paradigms across institutions offers the first step in providing a "Rosetta Stone" that provides a common reference point with which to compare and contrast the usefulness and reliability of fMRI data. From this common language task battery, future refinements and improvements are anticipated, particularly as objective measures of reliability become available. Some commonality of practice is a necessary first step to develop a foundation on which to improve the clinical utility of this field.
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- D F Black
- From the Mayo Clinic (D.F.B., K.W.), Rochester Minnesota
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (B.V.), New York, New York
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- Boston University School of Medicine (A.M.), Boston, Massachusetts
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital (S.H.F., H.I.S., J.J.P.), Baltimore, Maryland
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- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (M.M.), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital (S.H.F., H.I.S., J.J.P.), Baltimore, Maryland
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- Duke University School of Medicine, (J.R.P.) Durham, North Carolina
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital (S.H.F., H.I.S., J.J.P.), Baltimore, Maryland
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- From the Mayo Clinic (D.F.B., K.W.), Rochester Minnesota
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Pavilla A, Gambarota G, Arrigo A, Mejdoubi M, Duvauferrier R, Saint-Jalmes H. Diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) incorporation into an intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) MR model to measure cerebral hypoperfusion induced by hyperventilation challenge in healthy subjects. MAGNETIC RESONANCE MATERIALS IN PHYSICS BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2017; 30:545-554. [PMID: 28608327 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-017-0629-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Revised: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The objectives were to investigate the diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) incorporation into the intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) model for measurements of cerebral hypoperfusion in healthy subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight healthy subjects underwent a hyperventilation challenge with a 4-min diffusion weighted imaging protocol, using 8 b values chosen with the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound optimization approach. Four regions of interest in gray matter (GM) were analyzed with the DKI-IVIM model and the bi-exponential IVIM model, for normoventilation and hyperventilation conditions. RESULTS A significant reduction in the perfusion fraction (f) and in the product fD* of the perfusion fraction with the pseudodiffusion coefficient (D*) was found with the DKI-IVIM model, during the hyperventilation challenge. In the cerebellum GM, the percentage changes were f: -43.7 ± 40.1, p = 0.011 and fD*: -50.6 ± 32.1, p = 0.011; in thalamus GM, f: -47.7 ± 34.7, p = 0.012 and fD*: -47.2 ± 48.7, p = 0.040. In comparison, using the bi-exponential IVIM model, only a significant decrease in the parameter fD* was observed for the same regions of interest. In frontal-GM and posterior-GM, the reduction in f and fD* did not reach statistical significance, either with DKI-IVIM or the bi-exponential IVIM model. CONCLUSION When compared to the bi-exponential IVIM model, the DKI-IVIM model displays a higher sensitivity to detect changes in perfusion induced by the hyperventilation condition.
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- Aude Pavilla
- INSERM, UMR 1099, 35000, Rennes, France. .,Université de Rennes 1, LTSI, 35000, Rennes, France. .,Department of Neuroradiology, Pierre-Zobda-Quitman Hospital, University Hospital of Martinique, Fort-de- France, Martinique, France.
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- INSERM, UMR 1099, 35000, Rennes, France.,Université de Rennes 1, LTSI, 35000, Rennes, France
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Pierre-Zobda-Quitman Hospital, University Hospital of Martinique, Fort-de- France, Martinique, France
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Pierre-Zobda-Quitman Hospital, University Hospital of Martinique, Fort-de- France, Martinique, France
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Pierre-Zobda-Quitman Hospital, University Hospital of Martinique, Fort-de- France, Martinique, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1099, 35000, Rennes, France.,Université de Rennes 1, LTSI, 35000, Rennes, France.,CRLCC, Centre Eugène Marquis, 35000, Rennes, France
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Siegel AP, Daneshkhah A, Hardin DS, Shrestha S, Varahramyan K, Agarwal M. Analyzing breath samples of hypoglycemic events in type 1 diabetes patients: towards developing an alternative to diabetes alert dogs. J Breath Res 2017; 11:026007. [PMID: 28569238 DOI: 10.1088/1752-7163/aa6ac6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Diabetes is a disease that involves dysregulation of metabolic processes. Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) require insulin injections and measured food intake to maintain clinical stability, manually tracking their results by measuring blood glucose levels. Low blood glucose levels, hypoglycemia, can be extremely dangerous and can result in seizures, coma, or even death. Canines trained as diabetes alert dogs (DADs) have demonstrated the ability to detect hypoglycemia from breath, which led us to hypothesize that hypoglycemia, a metabolic dysregulation leading to low blood glucose levels, could be identified through analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) contained within breath. We hoped to replicate the canines' detection ability and success by analytically using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of VOCs in 128 breath samples collected from 52 youths with T1D at two different diabetes camps. We used different tests for significance including Ranksum, Student's T-test, and difference between means, and found a subset of 56 traces of potential metabolites. Principle component and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) confirmed a hypoglycemic signature likely resides within this group. Supervised machine learning combined with LDA narrowed the list of likely components to seven. The technique of leave one out cross validation demonstrated the model thus developed has a sensitivity of 91% (95% confidence interval (CI) [57.1, 94.7]) and a specificity of 84% (95% CI [73.0, 92.7]) at identifying hypoglycemia. Confidence intervals were obtained by bootstrapping. These results demonstrate that it is possible to differentiate breath samples obtained during hypoglycemic events from all other breath samples by analytical means and could lead to developing a simple analytical monitoring device as an alternative to using DADs.
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- Amanda P Siegel
- Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, United States of America. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN, United States of America
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Urback AL, MacIntosh BJ, Goldstein BI. Cerebrovascular reactivity measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging during breath-hold challenge: A systematic review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 79:27-47. [PMID: 28487157 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Revised: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 05/02/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is the cerebral hemodynamic response to a vasoactive substance. Breath-hold (BH) induced CVR has the advantage of being non-invasive and easy to implement during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We systematically reviewed the literature regarding MRI measurement of BH induced CVR. The literature was searched using MEDLINE with the search terms breath-hold; and MRI or cerebrovascular reactivity. The search yielded 2244 results and 54 articles were included. Between-group comparisons have found that CVR was higher among healthy controls than patients with various pathologies (e.g. sleep apnea, diabetes, hypertension etc.). However, counter-intuitive findings have also been reported, including higher CVR among smokers, sedentary individuals, and patients with schizophrenia vs. CONTROLS Methodological studies have highlighted important measurement characteristics (e.g. normalizing signal to end-tidal CO2), and comparisons of BH induced CVR to non-BH methods. Future studies are warranted to address questions about group differences, treatment response, disease progression, and other salient clinical themes. Standardization of CVR and BH designs is needed to fully exploit the potential of this practical non-invasive method.
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- Adam L Urback
- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 2075 Bayview Ave., FG-53, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Medicine, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada.
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- University of Toronto, Department of Medical Biophysics, 101 College Street Suite 15-701, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada; Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave., Room M6 180, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada.
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- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 2075 Bayview Ave., FG-53, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada; Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Medicine, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Medicine,250 College Street, Room 835, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada.
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Investigation of the confounding effects of vasculature and metabolism on computational anatomy studies. Neuroimage 2017; 149:233-243. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Revised: 01/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Cerebral endothelial dysfunction in reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: a case-control study. J Headache Pain 2017; 18:29. [PMID: 28229321 PMCID: PMC5321640 DOI: 10.1186/s10194-017-0738-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2016] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Background The aim of this study is to investigate cerebral endothelial dysfunction in patients with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS). Methods We prospectively recruited patients with RCVS, age-matched controls with episodic migraine, and age-matched healthy controls at Samsung Medical Center from Apr 2015 to Jul 2016. All participants underwent transcranial Doppler evaluation, with a breath-holding maneuver, for the evaluation of bilateral middle cerebral arteries (MCAs), posterior cerebral arteries (PCAs), and the basilar artery (BA). The breath-holding index (BHI) was used to measure cerebral endothelium-dependent vasodilation. Follow-up BHIs were recorded in selected patients with RCVS after 3 months. Results A total of 84 subjects were recruited for this study (n = 28 in each group of RCVS, episodic migraine, and healthy control; mean age, 49.8 years). The RCVS group showed lower BHIs in all basal arteries, in comparison to healthy controls (p < 0.001, 0.009 for bilateral MCAs, p < 0.001 and 0.028 for bilateral PCAs, and p = 0.060 for the BA). Compared to migraineurs, RCVS patients had lower BHIs only in the anterior circulation (p = 0.002 and 0.038 for bilateral MCAs; p = 0.069 and 0.247 for bilateral PCAs; p = 0.120 for the BA). Of the 10 patients who had follow-up BHIs at 3 months, 7 showed complete normalization, while three did not. Conclusions Cerebral endothelial function is impaired in a widespread distribution in RCVS. Its role in the pathogenesis and clinical outcome of RCVS should be determined in further studies. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s10194-017-0738-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Cerebrovascular reactivity mapping without gas challenges. Neuroimage 2016; 146:320-326. [PMID: 27888058 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 11/16/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR), the ability of cerebral vessels to dilate or constrict, has been shown to provide valuable information in the diagnosis and treatment evaluation of patients with various cerebrovascular conditions. CVR mapping is typically performed using hypercapnic gas inhalation as a vasoactive challenge while collecting BOLD images, but the inherent need of gas inhalation and the associated apparatus setup present a practical obstacle in applying it in routine clinical use. Therefore, we aimed to develop a new method to map CVR using resting-state BOLD data without the need of gas inhalation. This approach exploits the natural variation in respiration and measures its influence on BOLD MRI signal. In this work, we first identified a surrogate of the arterial CO2 fluctuation during spontaneous breathing from the global BOLD signal. Second, we tested the feasibility and reproducibility of the proposed approach to use the above-mentioned surrogate as a regressor to estimate voxel-wise CVR. Third, we validated the "resting-state CVR map" with a conventional CVR map obtained with hypercapnic gas inhalation in healthy volunteers. Finally, we tested the utility of this new approach in detecting abnormal CVR in a group of patients with Moyamoya disease, and again validated the results using the conventional gas inhalation method. Our results showed that global BOLD signal fluctuation in the frequency range of 0.02-0.04Hz contains the most prominent contribution from natural variation in arterial CO2. The CVR map calculated using this signal as a regressor is reproducible across runs (ICC=0.91±0.06), and manifests a strong spatial correlation with results measured with a conventional hypercapnia-based method in healthy subjects (r=0.88, p<0.001). We also found that resting-state CVR was able to identify vasodilatory deficit in patients with steno-occlusive disease, the spatial pattern of which matches that obtained using the conventional gas method (r=0.71±0.18). These results suggest that CVR obtained with resting-state BOLD may be a useful alternative in detecting vascular deficits in clinical applications when gas challenge is not feasible.
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Ravi H, Liu P, Peng SL, Liu H, Lu H. Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) acquisition enhances the sensitivity of hemodynamic mapping using gas challenges. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2016; 29:1511-1518. [PMID: 27598821 PMCID: PMC5123823 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2016] [Revised: 06/29/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Hemodynamic mapping using gas inhalation has received increasing interest in recent years. Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR), which reflects the ability of the brain vasculature to dilate in response to a vasoactive stimulus, can be measured by CO2 inhalation with continuous acquisition of blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance images. Cerebral blood volume (CBV) can be measured by O2 inhalation. These hemodynamic mapping methods are appealing because of their absence of gadolinium contrast agent, their ability to assess both baseline perfusion and vascular reserve, and their utility in calibrating the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signal. However, like other functional and physiological indices, a major drawback of these measurements is their poor sensitivity and reliability. Simultaneous multi-slice echo planar imaging (SMS EPI) is a fast imaging technology that allows the excitation and acquisition of multiple two-dimensional slices simultaneously, and has been shown to enhance the sensitivity of several MRI applications. To our knowledge, the benefit of SMS in gas inhalation imaging has not been investigated. In this work, we compared the sensitivity of CO2 and O2 inhalation data collected using SMS factor 2 (SMS2) and SMS factor 3 (SMS3) with those collected using conventional EPI (SMS1). We showed that the sensitivity of SMS scans was significantly (p = 0.01) higher than that of conventional EPI, although no difference was found between SMS2 and SMS3 (p = 0.3). On a voxel-wise level, approximately 20-30% of voxels in the brain showed a significant enhancement in sensitivity when using SMS compared with conventional EPI, with other voxels showing an increase, but not reaching statistical significance. When using SMS, the scan duration can be reduced by half, whilst maintaining the sensitivity of conventional EPI. The availability of a sensitive acquisition technique can further enhance the potential of gas inhalation MRI in clinical applications.
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- Harshan Ravi
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
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Donahue MJ, Strother MK, Lindsey KP, Hocke LM, Tong Y, Frederick BD. Time delay processing of hypercapnic fMRI allows quantitative parameterization of cerebrovascular reactivity and blood flow delays. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2016; 36:1767-1779. [PMID: 26661192 PMCID: PMC5076782 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x15608643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2015] [Accepted: 07/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Blood oxygenation level-dependent fMRI contrast depends on the volume and oxygenation of blood flowing through the circulatory system. The effects on image intensity depend temporally on the arrival of blood within a voxel, and signal can be monitored during the time course of such blood flow. It has been previously shown that the passage of global endogenous variations in blood volume and oxygenation can be tracked as blood passes through the brain by determining the strength and peak time lag of their cross-correlation with blood oxygenation level-dependent data. By manipulating blood composition using transient hypercarbia and hyperoxia, we can induce much larger oxygenation and volume changes in the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal than result from natural endogenous fluctuations. This technique was used to examine cerebrovascular parameters in healthy subjects (n = 8) and subjects with intracranial stenosis (n = 22), with a subgroup of intracranial stenosis subjects scanned before and after surgical revascularization (n = 6). The halfwidth of cross-correlation lag times in the brain was larger in IC stenosis subjects (21.21 ± 14.22 s) than in healthy control subjects (8.03 ± 3.67), p < 0.001, and was subsequently reduced in regions that co-localized with surgical revascularization. These data show that blood circulatory timing can be measured robustly and longitudinally throughout the brain using simple respiratory challenges.
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- Manus J Donahue
- Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Brain Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Brain Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA Department of Bioengineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
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- Brain Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Brain Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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A forward modelling approach for the estimation of oxygen extraction fraction by calibrated fMRI. Neuroimage 2016; 139:313-323. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2015] [Revised: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Lajoie I, Tancredi FB, Hoge RD. Regional Reproducibility of BOLD Calibration Parameter M, OEF and Resting-State CMRO2 Measurements with QUO2 MRI. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0163071. [PMID: 27649493 PMCID: PMC5029886 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The current generation of calibrated MRI methods goes beyond simple localization of task-related responses to allow the mapping of resting-state cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2) in micromolar units and estimation of oxygen extraction fraction (OEF). Prior to the adoption of such techniques in neuroscience research applications, knowledge about the precision and accuracy of absolute estimates of CMRO2 and OEF is crucial and remains unexplored to this day. In this study, we addressed the question of methodological precision by assessing the regional inter-subject variance and intra-subject reproducibility of the BOLD calibration parameter M, OEF, O2 delivery and absolute CMRO2 estimates derived from a state-of-the-art calibrated BOLD technique, the QUantitative O2 (QUO2) approach. We acquired simultaneous measurements of CBF and R2* at rest and during periods of hypercapnia (HC) and hyperoxia (HO) on two separate scan sessions within 24 hours using a clinical 3 T MRI scanner. Maps of M, OEF, oxygen delivery and CMRO2, were estimated from the measured end-tidal O2, CBF0, CBFHC/HO and R2*HC/HO. Variability was assessed by computing the between-subject coefficients of variation (bwCV) and within-subject CV (wsCV) in seven ROIs. All tests GM-averaged values of CBF0, M, OEF, O2 delivery and CMRO2 were: 49.5 ± 6.4 mL/100 g/min, 4.69 ± 0.91%, 0.37 ± 0.06, 377 ± 51 μmol/100 g/min and 143 ± 34 μmol/100 g/min respectively. The variability of parameter estimates was found to be the lowest when averaged throughout all GM, with general trends toward higher CVs when averaged over smaller regions. Among the MRI measurements, the most reproducible across scans was R2*0 (wsCVGM = 0.33%) along with CBF0 (wsCVGM = 3.88%) and R2*HC (wsCVGM = 6.7%). CBFHC and R2*HO were found to have a higher intra-subject variability (wsCVGM = 22.4% and wsCVGM = 16% respectively), which is likely due to propagation of random measurement errors, especially for CBFHC due to the low contrast-to-noise ratio intrinsic to ASL. Reproducibility of the QUO2 derived estimates were computed, yielding a GM intra-subject reproducibility of 3.87% for O2 delivery, 16.8% for the M value, 13.6% for OEF and 15.2% for CMRO2. Although these results focus on the precision of the QUO2 method, rather than the accuracy, the information will be useful for calculation of statistical power in future validation studies and ultimately for research applications of the method. The higher test-retest variability for the more extensively modeled parameters (M, OEF, and CMRO2) highlights the need for further improvement of acquisition methods to reduce noise levels.
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- Isabelle Lajoie
- Département de physiologie moléculaire et intégrative, Institut de génie biomédical, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departamento de Radiologia, Centro de Pesquisa em Imagem, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Palo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Sam K, Conklin J, Holmes KR, Sobczyk O, Poublanc J, Crawley AP, Mandell DM, Venkatraghavan L, Duffin J, Fisher JA, Black SE, Mikulis DJ. Impaired dynamic cerebrovascular response to hypercapnia predicts development of white matter hyperintensities. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2016; 11:796-801. [PMID: 27358765 PMCID: PMC4917393 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2016] [Revised: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Purpose To evaluate the relationship between both dynamic and steady-state measures of cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) and the progression of age-related white matter disease. Methods Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) MRI CVR scans were acquired from forty-five subjects (age range: 50–90 years, 25 males) with moderate to severe white matter disease, at baseline and one-year follow-up. To calculate the dynamic (τ) and steady-state (ssCVR) components of the BOLD signal response, the PETCO2 signal waveform was convolved with an exponential decay function. The τ corresponding to the best fit between the convolved PETCO2 and BOLD signal defined the speed of response, and the slope of the regression between the convolved PETCO2 and BOLD signal defined ssCVR. ssCVR and τ were compared between normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) that remains stable over time and NAWM that progresses to white matter hyperintensities (WMHs). Results In comparison to contralateral NAWM, NAWM that progressed to WMH had significantly lower ssCVR values by mean (SD) 46.5 (7.6)%, and higher τ values by 31.9 (9.6)% (both P < 0.01). Conclusions Vascular impairment in regions of NAWM that progresses to WMH consists not only of decreased magnitude of ssCVR, but also a pathological decrease in the speed of vascular response. These findings support the association between cerebrovascular dysregulation and the development of WMH. Vascular responses are slower in normal white matter that progresses to disease. Steady-state cerebrovascular reactivity is reduced in normal white matter that progresses to disease. Cerebrovascular dysregulation occurs before development of leukoaraiosis.
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- Kevin Sam
- Department of Physiology, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Sciences, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Sciences, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Medical Sciences, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Quantitative mapping of cerebrovascular reactivity using resting-state BOLD fMRI: Validation in healthy adults. Neuroimage 2016; 138:147-163. [PMID: 27177763 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Revised: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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In conventional neuroimaging, cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is quantified primarily using the blood-oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) signal, specifically, as the BOLD response to intravascular carbon dioxide (CO2) modulations, in units of [%ΔBOLD/mmHg]. While this method has achieved wide appeal and clinical translation, the tolerability of CO2-related tasks amongst patients and the elderly remains a challenge in more routine and large-scale applications. In this work, we propose an improved method to quantify CVR by exploiting intrinsic fluctuations in CO2 and corresponding changes in the resting-state BOLD signal (rs-qCVR). Our rs-qCVR approach requires simultaneous monitoring of PETCO2, cardiac pulsation and respiratory volume. In 16 healthy adults, we compare our quantitative CVR estimation technique to the prospective CO2-targeting based CVR quantification approach (qCVR, the "standard"). We also compare our rs-CVR to non-quantitative alternatives including the resting-state fluctuation amplitude (RSFA), amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) and global-signal regression. When all subjects were pooled, only RSFA and ALFF were significantly associated with qCVR. However, for characterizing regional CVR variations within each subject, only the PETCO2-based rs-qCVR measure is strongly associated with standard qCVR in 100% of the subjects (p≤0.1). In contrast, for the more qualitative CVR measures, significant within-subject association with qCVR was only achieved in 50-70% of the subjects. Our work establishes the feasibility of extracting quantitative CVR maps using rs-fMRI, opening the possibility of mapping functional connectivity and qCVR simultaneously.
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Blair GW, Doubal FN, Thrippleton MJ, Marshall I, Wardlaw JM. Magnetic resonance imaging for assessment of cerebrovascular reactivity in cerebral small vessel disease: A systematic review. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2016; 36:833-41. [PMID: 26884471 PMCID: PMC4853842 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x16631756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) pathophysiology is poorly understood. Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) impairment may play a role, but evidence to date is mainly indirect. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows investigation of CVR directly in the tissues affected by SVD. We systematically reviewed the use of MRI to measure CVR in subjects with SVD. Five studies (total n = 155 SVD subjects, 84 controls) provided relevant data. The studies included different types of patients. Each study used blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI to assess CVR but a different vasoactive stimulus and method of calculating CVR. CVR decreased with increasing white matter hyperintensities in two studies (n = 17, 11%) and in the presence of microbleeds in another. Three studies (n = 138, 89%) found no association of CVR with white matter hyperintensities. No studies provided tissue-specific CVR values. CVR decreased with age in three studies, and with female gender and increasing diastolic blood pressure in one study. Safety and tolerability data were limited. Larger studies using CVR appear to be feasible and are needed, preferably with more standardized methods, to determine if specific clinical or radiological features of SVD are more or less associated with impaired CVR.
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- Gordon W Blair
- Neuroimaging Sciences, Centre for Clinical Brain Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Neuroimaging Sciences, Centre for Clinical Brain Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Neuroimaging Sciences, Centre for Clinical Brain Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Neuroimaging Sciences, Centre for Clinical Brain Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Neuroimaging Sciences, Centre for Clinical Brain Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Ellis MJ, Ryner LN, Sobczyk O, Fierstra J, Mikulis DJ, Fisher JA, Duffin J, Mutch WAC. Neuroimaging Assessment of Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Concussion: Current Concepts, Methodological Considerations, and Review of the Literature. Front Neurol 2016; 7:61. [PMID: 27199885 PMCID: PMC4850165 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Concussion is a form of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that presents with a wide spectrum of subjective symptoms and few objective clinical findings. Emerging research suggests that one of the processes that may contribute to concussion pathophysiology is dysregulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) leading to a mismatch between CBF delivery and the metabolic needs of the injured brain. Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is defined as the change in CBF in response to a measured vasoactive stimulus. Several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques can be used as a surrogate measure of CBF in clinical and laboratory studies. In order to provide an accurate assessment of CVR, these sequences must be combined with a reliable, reproducible vasoactive stimulus that can manipulate CBF. Although CVR imaging currently plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and management of many cerebrovascular diseases, only recently have studies begun to apply this assessment tool in patients with concussion. In order to evaluate the quality, reliability, and relevance of CVR studies in concussion, it is important that clinicians and researchers have a strong foundational understanding of the role of CBF regulation in health, concussion, and more severe forms of TBI, and an awareness of the advantages and limitations of currently available CVR measurement techniques. Accordingly, in this review, we (1) discuss the role of CVR in TBI and concussion, (2) examine methodological considerations for MRI-based measurement of CVR, and (3) provide an overview of published CVR studies in concussion patients.
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- Michael J Ellis
- Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Section of Neurosurgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Pan Am Concussion Program, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Childrens Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Canada North Concussion Network, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Canada North Concussion Network, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Health Sciences Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto , Toronto, ON , Canada
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network Cerebrovascular Reactivity Research Group, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network Cerebrovascular Reactivity Research Group, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network Cerebrovascular Reactivity Research Group, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canada North Concussion Network, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Health Sciences Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Golestani AM, Kwinta JB, Strother SC, Khatamian YB, Chen JJ. The association between cerebrovascular reactivity and resting-state fMRI functional connectivity in healthy adults: The influence of basal carbon dioxide. Neuroimage 2016; 132:301-313. [PMID: 26908321 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Revised: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Although widely used in resting-state fMRI (fMRI) functional connectivity measurement (fcMRI), the BOLD signal is only an indirect measure of neuronal activity, and is inherently modulated by both neuronal activity and vascular physiology. For instance, cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) varies widely across individuals irrespective of neuronal function, but the implications for fcMRI are currently unknown. This knowledge gap compromises our ability to correctly interpret fcMRI measurements. In this work, we investigate the relationship between CVR and resting fcMRI measurements in healthy young adults, in both the motor and the executive-control networks. We modulate CVR within each individual by subtly increasing and decreasing resting vascular tension through baseline end-tidal CO2 (PETCO2), and measure fcMRI during these hypercapnic, hypocapnic and normocapnic states. Furthermore, we assess the association between CVR and fcMRI within and across individuals. Within individuals, resting PETCO2 is found to significantly influence both CVR and resting fcMRI values. In addition, we find resting fcMRI to be significantly and positively associated with CVR across the group in both networks. This relationship is potentially mediated by concomitant alterations in BOLD signal fluctuation amplitude. This work clearly demonstrates and quantifies a major vascular modulator of resting fcMRI, one that is also subject and regional dependent. We suggest that individualized correction for CVR effects in fcMRI measurements is essential for fcMRI studies of healthy brains, and can be even more important in studying diseased brains.
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- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada.
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Pinto J, Jorge J, Sousa I, Vilela P, Figueiredo P. Fourier modeling of the BOLD response to a breath-hold task: Optimization and reproducibility. Neuroimage 2016; 135:223-31. [PMID: 26908316 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Revised: 01/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) reflects the capacity of blood vessels to adjust their caliber in order to maintain a steady supply of brain perfusion, and it may provide a sensitive disease biomarker. Measurement of the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response to a hypercapnia-inducing breath-hold (BH) task has been frequently used to map CVR noninvasively using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, the best modeling approach for the accurate quantification of CVR maps remains an open issue. Here, we compare and optimize Fourier models of the BOLD response to a BH task with a preparatory inspiration, and assess the test-retest reproducibility of the associated CVR measurements, in a group of 10 healthy volunteers studied over two fMRI sessions. Linear combinations of sine-cosine pairs at the BH task frequency and its successive harmonics were added sequentially in a nested models approach, and were compared in terms of the adjusted coefficient of determination and corresponding variance explained (VE) of the BOLD signal, as well as the number of voxels exhibiting significant BOLD responses, the estimated CVR values, and their test-retest reproducibility. The brain average VE increased significantly with the Fourier model order, up to the 3rd order. However, the number of responsive voxels increased significantly only up to the 2nd order, and started to decrease from the 3rd order onwards. Moreover, no significant relative underestimation of CVR values was observed beyond the 2nd order. Hence, the 2nd order model was concluded to be the optimal choice for the studied paradigm. This model also yielded the best test-retest reproducibility results, with intra-subject coefficients of variation of 12 and 16% and an intra-class correlation coefficient of 0.74. In conclusion, our results indicate that a Fourier series set consisting of a sine-cosine pair at the BH task frequency and its two harmonics is a suitable model for BOLD-fMRI CVR measurements based on a BH task with preparatory inspiration, yielding robust estimates of this important physiological parameter.
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- Joana Pinto
- Institute for Systems and Robotics, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Institute for Systems and Robotics, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Biomedical Imaging Research Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Systems and Robotics, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Healthcare Sector, Siemens, S.A., Portugal
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- Imaging Department, Hospital da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Robotics, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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Oziel M, Hjouj M, Gonzalez CA, Lavee J, Rubinsky B. Non-ionizing radiofrequency electromagnetic waves traversing the head can be used to detect cerebrovascular autoregulation responses. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21667. [PMID: 26898944 PMCID: PMC4761952 DOI: 10.1038/srep21667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Monitoring changes in non-ionizing radiofrequency electromagnetic waves as they traverse the brain can detect the effects of stimuli employed in cerebrovascular autoregulation (CVA) tests on the brain, without contact and in real time. CVA is a physiological phenomenon of importance to health, used for diagnosis of a number of diseases of the brain with a vascular component. The technology described here is being developed for use in diagnosis of injuries and diseases of the brain in rural and economically underdeveloped parts of the world. A group of nine subjects participated in this pilot clinical evaluation of the technology. Substantial research remains to be done on correlating the measurements with physiology and anatomy.
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- M. Oziel
- Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel
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- Medical Imaging Department, Al-Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestine
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional-Escuela Superior de Medicina, DF, Mexico
- Universidad del Ejército y Fuerza Aérea-EMGS, DF, Mexico
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- Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Heart Transplantation Unit, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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Sobczyk O, Crawley AP, Poublanc J, Sam K, Mandell DM, Mikulis DJ, Duffin J, Fisher JA. Identifying Significant Changes in Cerebrovascular Reactivity to Carbon Dioxide. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2016; 37:818-24. [PMID: 26846924 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 10/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Changes in cerebrovascular reactivity can be used to assess disease progression and response to therapy but require discrimination of pathology from normal test-to-test variability. Such variability is due to variations in methodology, technology, and physiology with time. With uniform test conditions, our aim was to determine the test-to-test variability of cerebrovascular reactivity in healthy subjects and in patients with known cerebrovascular disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cerebrovascular reactivity was the ratio of the blood oxygen level-dependent MR imaging response divided by the change in carbon dioxide stimulus. Two standardized cerebrovascular reactivity tests were conducted at 3T in 15 healthy men (36.7 ± 16.1 years of age) within a 4-month period and were coregistered into standard space to yield voxelwise mean cerebrovascular reactivity interval difference measures, composing a reference interval difference atlas. Cerebrovascular reactivity interval difference maps were prepared for 11 male patients. For each patient, the test-retest difference of each voxel was scored statistically as z-values of the corresponding voxel mean difference in the reference atlas and then color-coded and superimposed on the anatomic images to create cerebrovascular reactivity interval difference z-maps. RESULTS There were no significant test-to-test differences in cerebrovascular reactivity in either gray or white matter (mean gray matter, P = .431; mean white matter, P = .857; paired t test) in the healthy cohort. The patient cerebrovascular reactivity interval difference z-maps indicated regions where cerebrovascular reactivity increased or decreased and the probability that the changes were significant. CONCLUSIONS Accounting for normal test-to-test differences in cerebrovascular reactivity enables the assessment of significant changes in disease status (stability, progression, or regression) in patients with time.
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- O Sobczyk
- From the Institute of Medical Science (O.S., D.J.M., J.A.F.)
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging and the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory (A.P.C., J.P., K.S., D.M.M., D.J.M.)
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging and the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory (A.P.C., J.P., K.S., D.M.M., D.J.M.)
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- Department of Physiology (K.S., J.D., J.A.F.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Joint Department of Medical Imaging and the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory (A.P.C., J.P., K.S., D.M.M., D.J.M.)
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- Joint Department of Medical Imaging and the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory (A.P.C., J.P., K.S., D.M.M., D.J.M.)
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- From the Institute of Medical Science (O.S., D.J.M., J.A.F.) Joint Department of Medical Imaging and the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory (A.P.C., J.P., K.S., D.M.M., D.J.M.)
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- Department of Physiology (K.S., J.D., J.A.F.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management (J.D., J.A.F.), University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- From the Institute of Medical Science (O.S., D.J.M., J.A.F.) Department of Physiology (K.S., J.D., J.A.F.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management (J.D., J.A.F.), University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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Merola A, Murphy K, Stone AJ, Germuska MA, Griffeth VEM, Blockley NP, Buxton RB, Wise RG. Measurement of oxygen extraction fraction (OEF): An optimized BOLD signal model for use with hypercapnic and hyperoxic calibration. Neuroimage 2016; 129:159-174. [PMID: 26801605 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Revised: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Several techniques have been proposed to estimate relative changes in cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (CMRO2) by exploiting combined BOLD fMRI and cerebral blood flow data in conjunction with hypercapnic or hyperoxic respiratory challenges. More recently, methods based on respiratory challenges that include both hypercapnia and hyperoxia have been developed to assess absolute CMRO2, an important parameter for understanding brain energetics. In this paper, we empirically optimize a previously presented "original calibration model" relating BOLD and blood flow signals specifically for the estimation of oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and absolute CMRO2. To do so, we have created a set of synthetic BOLD signals using a detailed BOLD signal model to reproduce experiments incorporating hypercapnic and hyperoxic respiratory challenges at 3T. A wide range of physiological conditions was simulated by varying input parameter values (baseline cerebral blood volume (CBV0), baseline cerebral blood flow (CBF0), baseline oxygen extraction fraction (OEF0) and hematocrit (Hct)). From the optimization of the calibration model for estimation of OEF and practical considerations of hypercapnic and hyperoxic respiratory challenges, a new "simplified calibration model" is established which reduces the complexity of the original calibration model by substituting the standard parameters α and β with a single parameter θ. The optimal value of θ is determined (θ=0.06) across a range of experimental respiratory challenges. The simplified calibration model gives estimates of OEF0 and absolute CMRO2 closer to the true values used to simulate the experimental data compared to those estimated using the original model incorporating literature values of α and β. Finally, an error propagation analysis demonstrates the susceptibility of the original and simplified calibration models to measurement errors and potential violations in the underlying assumptions of isometabolism. We conclude that using the simplified calibration model results in a reduced bias in OEF0 estimates across a wide range of potential respiratory challenge experimental designs.
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- Alberto Merola
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Bioengineering and Medical Scientist Training Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States; Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
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Ravi H, Thomas BP, Peng SL, Liu H, Lu H. On the optimization of imaging protocol for the mapping of cerebrovascular reactivity. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 43:661-8. [PMID: 26268541 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2015] [Revised: 07/23/2015] [Accepted: 07/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND To devise an improved blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) imaging protocol for cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) measurement that can remove a known artifact of negative values. METHODS Theoretical and simulation studies were first performed to understand the biophysical mechanism of the negative CVR signals, through which improved BOLD sequence parameters were proposed. This was achieved by equating signal intensities between cerebrospinal fluid and blood, by means of shortening the echo time (TE) of the BOLD sequence. Then, 10 healthy volunteers were recruited to participate in an experimental study, in which we compared the CVR results of two versions of the optimized ("Opt1" and "Opt2") protocols with that of the standard protocol at 3 Tesla. Two sessions were performed for each subject to test the reproducibility of all three protocols. RESULTS Experimental results demonstrated that the optimized protocols resulted in elimination of negative-CVR voxels. Quantitative CVR results were compared across protocols, which show that the optimized protocols yielded smaller CVR values (Opt1: 0.16 ± 0.01 %BOLD/mmHg CO2 ; Opt2: 0.15 ± 0.01 %BOLD/mmHg CO2 ) than (P < 0.001) the standard protocol (0.21 ± 0.01 %BOLD/mmHg CO2 ), but the CNR was comparable (P = 0.1) to the standard protocol. The coefficient-of-variation between repetitions was found to be 5.6 ± 1.4%, 6.3 ± 1.6%, and 6.9 ± 0.9% for the three protocols, but there were no significant differences (P = 0.65). CONCLUSION Based on the theoretical and experimental results obtained from this study, we suggest that the use of a TE shorter than those used in fMRI is necessary to minimize negative artifact in CVR results.
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- Harshan Ravi
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Examining the regional and cerebral depth-dependent BOLD cerebrovascular reactivity response at 7 T. Neuroimage 2015; 114:239-48. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Revised: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 04/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Gupta A, Marshall RS. Moving beyond luminal stenosis: imaging strategies for stroke prevention in asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Cerebrovasc Dis 2015; 39:253-61. [PMID: 25870952 DOI: 10.1159/000381108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND With progressive improvements in medical therapy and resultant reductions in stroke risk, luminal stenosis criteria are no longer adequate to inform decisions to pursue surgical revascularization in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. SUMMARY In this evidence-based review, we discuss the imaging-based risk stratification strategies that take into account factors beyond luminal stenosis measurements, including cerebral hemodynamics and plaque composition. The existing literature lends support to the use of certain imaging tests in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis including cerebrovascular reserve testing, MRI of plaque composition, ultrasound of plaque echolucency, and transcranial Doppler evaluation for microemboli. The highest quality evidence thus far in the literature includes only systematic reviews and meta-analyses of cohort studies with no randomized trials having yet been performed to show how these newer imaging biomarkers could be used to inform treatment decisions in asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Beyond the need for randomized trials, there are additional important steps needed to improve the relevance of evidence supporting risk assessment strategies. Imaging studies evaluating the risk of stroke in carotid disease should clearly define asymptomatic versus symptomatic disease, use uniform definitions of clearly defined outcome measures such as ipsilateral stroke, ensure that imaging interpretations are performed in a manner blinded to treatments and other risk factors, and include cohorts which are on modern intensive medical therapy. Such studies of risk stratification for asymptomatic carotid stenosis will be most valuable if they can integrate multiple high-risk features (including clinical risk factors) into a multi-factorial risk assessment strategy in a manner that is relatively simple to implement and generalizable across a wide range of practice settings. Key Messages: Together, modern imaging strategies allow for a more mechanistic assessment of stroke risk in carotid disease compared to luminal stenosis measurements alone, which, with further validation in randomized controlled trials, may improve current efforts at stroke prevention in asymptomatic carotid stenosis.
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- Ajay Gupta
- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, N.Y., USA
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Modeling the role of osmotic forces in the cerebrovascular response to CO2. Med Hypotheses 2015; 85:25-36. [PMID: 25858437 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2015.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2014] [Revised: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 03/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Increases in blood osmolarity have been shown to exert a vasodilatory effect on cerebral and other vasculature, with accompanying increases in blood flow. It has also been shown that, through an influence on blood concentration of the bicarbonate ion and pH, changes in blood levels of CO2 can alter blood osmolarity sufficiently to have an impact on vessel diameter. We propose here that this phenomenon plays a previously unappreciated role in CO2-mediated vasodilation, and present a biophysical model of osmotically driven vasodilation. Our model, which is based on literature data describing CO2-dependent changes in blood osmolarity and hydraulic conductivity (Lp) of the blood-brain barrier, is used to predict the change in cerebral blood flow (CBF) associated with osmotic forces arising from a specific hypercapnic challenge. Modeled changes were then compared with actual CBF changes determined using arterial spin-labeling (ASL) MRI. For changes in the arterial partial pressure of CO2 (PaCO2) of 20 mmHg, our model predicted increases of 80% from baseline CBF with a temporal evolution that was comparable to the measured hemodynamic responses. Our modeling results suggest that osmotic forces could play a significant role in the cerebrovascular response to CO2.
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Tancredi FB, Lajoie I, Hoge RD. Test-retest reliability of cerebral blood flow and blood oxygenation level-dependent responses to hypercapnia and hyperoxia using dual-echo pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling and step changes in the fractional composition of inspired gases. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 42:1144-57. [PMID: 25752936 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To assess the reproducibility of blood oxygenation level-dependent / cerebral blood flow (BOLD/CBF) responses to hypercapnia/hyperoxia using dual-echo pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) and step changes in inspired doses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight subjects were scanned twice, within 24 hours, using the same respiratory manipulation and imaging protocol. Imaging comprised a 5-minute anatomical acquisition, allowing segmentation of the gray matter (GM) tissue for further analysis, and an 18-minute pCASL functional scan. Hypercapnia/hyperoxia were induced by increasing the fraction of inspired CO2 to 5% and inspired O2 to 60%, alternately. Reproducibility of BOLD and CBF pCASL measures was assessed by computing the inter-session coefficient of variation (CV) of the respective signals in GM. RESULTS BOLD and CBF measures in GM were robust and consistent, yielding CV values below 10% for BOLD hypercapnic/hyperoxic responses (which averaged 1.9 ± 0.1% and 1.14 ± 0.02%) and below 20% for the CBF hypercapnic response (which averaged 35 ± 2 mL/min/100g). The CV for resting CBF was 3.5%. CONCLUSION It is possible to attain reproducible measures of the simultaneous BOLD and CBF responses to blood gases, within a reasonable scan time and with whole brain coverage, using a simple respiratory manipulation and dual-echo pCASL.
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- Felipe B Tancredi
- Université de Montréal Institut de génie biomédical Département de physiologie C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal Unité de neuroimagerie fonctionnelle 4545, Ch. Queen Mary Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein Imagem Av. Albert Einstein, 627, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Université de Montréal Institut de génie biomédical Département de physiologie C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal Unité de neuroimagerie fonctionnelle 4545, Ch. Queen Mary Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Université de Montréal Institut de génie biomédical Département de physiologie C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montréal, Québec, Canada.,Centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal Unité de neuroimagerie fonctionnelle 4545, Ch. Queen Mary Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Geranmayeh F, Wise RJS, Leech R, Murphy K. Measuring vascular reactivity with breath-holds after stroke: a method to aid interpretation of group-level BOLD signal changes in longitudinal fMRI studies. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:1755-71. [PMID: 25727648 PMCID: PMC4413362 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Revised: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 01/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Blood oxygenation level‐dependent (BOLD) contrast functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a widely used technique to map brain function, and to monitor its recovery after stroke. Since stroke has a vascular etiology, the neurovascular coupling between cerebral blood flow and neural activity may be altered, resulting in uncertainties when interpreting longitudinal BOLD signal changes. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of using a recently validated breath‐hold task in patients with stroke, both to assess group level changes in cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) and to determine if alterations in regional CVR over time will adversely affect interpretation of task‐related BOLD signal changes. Three methods of analyzing the breath‐hold data were evaluated. The CVR measures were compared over healthy tissue, infarcted tissue and the peri‐infarct tissue, both sub‐acutely (∼2 weeks) and chronically (∼4 months). In this cohort, a lack of CVR differences in healthy tissue between the patients and controls indicates that any group level BOLD signal change observed in these regions over time is unlikely to be related to vascular alterations. CVR was reduced in the peri‐infarct tissue but remained unchanged over time. Therefore, although a lack of activation in this region compared with the controls may be confounded by a reduced CVR, longitudinal group‐level BOLD changes may be more confidently attributed to neural activity changes in this cohort. By including this breath‐hold‐based CVR assessment protocol in future studies of stroke recovery, researchers can be more assured that longitudinal changes in BOLD signal reflect true alterations in neural activity. Hum Brain Mapp 36:1755–1771, 2015. © 2015 The Authors Human Brain Mapping Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Fatemeh Geranmayeh
- Computational Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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Zhou Y, Rodgers ZB, Kuo AH. Cerebrovascular reactivity measured with arterial spin labeling and blood oxygen level dependent techniques. Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 33:566-76. [PMID: 25708263 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2015.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Revised: 01/17/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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PURPOSE To compare cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) quantified with pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fMRI techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen healthy volunteers (age: 37.8±14.3years; 6 women and 10 men; education attainment: 17±2.1years) were recruited and completed a 5% CO2 gas-mixture breathing paradigm at 3T field strength. ASL and BOLD images were acquired for CVR determination assuming that mild hypercapnia does not affect the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen. Both CVR quantifications were derived as the ratio of the fractional cerebral blood flow (CBF) or BOLD signal change over the change in end-tidal CO2 pressure. RESULTS The absolute CBF, BOLD and CVR measures were consistent with literature values. CBF derived CVR was 5.11±0.87%/mmHg in gray matter (GM) and 4.64±0.37%/mmHg in parenchyma. BOLD CVR was 0.23±0.04%/mmHg and 0.22±0.04%/mmHg for GM and parenchyma respectively. The most significant correlations between BOLD and CBF-based CVRs were also in GM structures, with greater vascular response in occipital cortex than in frontal and parietal lobes (6.8%/mmHg versus 4.5%/mmHg, 50% greater). Parenchymal BOLD CVR correlated significantly with the fractional change in CBF in response to hypercapnia (r=0.61, P=0.01), suggesting the BOLD response to be significantly flow driven. GM CBF decreased with age in room air (-5.58mL/100g/min per decade for GM; r=-0.51, P=0.05), but there was no association of CBF with age during hypercapnia. A trend toward increased pCASL CVR with age was observed, scaling as 0.64%/mmHg per decade for GM. CONCLUSION Consistent with previously reported CVR values, our results suggest that BOLD and CBF CVR techniques are complementary to each other in evaluating neuronal and vascular underpinning of hemodynamic processes.
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- Yongxia Zhou
- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Radiology, University of Texas South Medical Center, San Antonio, TX
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Comparing cerebrovascular reactivity measured using BOLD and cerebral blood flow MRI: The effect of basal vascular tension on vasodilatory and vasoconstrictive reactivity. Neuroimage 2015; 110:110-23. [PMID: 25655446 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Revised: 01/15/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is an important metric of cerebrovascular health. While the BOLD fMRI method in conjunction with carbon-dioxide (CO2) based vascular manipulation has been the most commonly used, the BOLD signal is not a direct measure of vascular changes, and the use of arterial-spin labeling (ASL) cerebral blood flow (CBF) imaging is increasingly advocated. Nonetheless, given the differing dependencies of BOLD and CBF on vascular baseline conditions and the diverse CO2 manipulation types currently used in the literature, knowledge of potential biases introduced by each technique is critical for the interpretation of CVR measurements. In this work, we use simultaneous BOLD-CBF acquisitions during both vasodilatory (hypercapnic) and vasoconstrictive (hypocapnic) stimuli to measure CVR. We further imposed different levels of baseline vascular tension by inducing hypercapnic and hypocapnic baselines, separately from normocapnia by 4mmHg. We saw significant and diverse dependencies on vascular stimulus and baseline condition in both BOLD and CBF CVR measurements: (i) BOLD-based CVR is more sensitive to basal vascular tension than CBF-based CVR; (ii) the use of a combination of vasodilatory and vasoconstrictive stimuli maximizes the sensitivity of CBF-based CVR to vascular tension changes; (iii) the BOLD and CBF vascular response delays are both significantly lengthened at predilated baseline. As vascular tension can often be altered by potential pathology, our findings are important considerations when interpreting CVR measurements in health and disease.
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Chan ST, Evans KC, Rosen BR, Song TY, Kwong KK. A case study of magnetic resonance imaging of cerebrovascular reactivity: a powerful imaging marker for mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Inj 2014; 29:403-7. [PMID: 25384127 DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.974209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To use breath-hold functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to localize the brain regions with impaired cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in a female patient diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The extent of impaired CVR was evaluated 2 months after concussion. Follow-up scan was performed 1 year post-mTBI using the same breath-hold fMRI technique. RESEARCH DESIGN Case report. METHODS AND PROCEDURES fMRI blood oxygenation dependent level (BOLD) signals were measured under breath-hold challenge in a female mTBI patient 2 months after concussion followed by a second fMRI with breath-hold challenge 1 year later. CVR was expressed as the percentage change of BOLD signals per unit time of breath-hold. MAIN OUTCOMES In comparison with CVR measurement of normal control subjects, statistical maps of CVR revealed substantial neurovascular deficits and hemispheric asymmetry within grey and white matter in the initial breath-hold fMRI scan. Follow-up breath-hold fMRI performed 1 year post-mTBI demonstrated normalization of CVR accompanied with symptomatic recovery. CONCLUSIONS CVR may serve as an imaging biomarker to detect subtle deficits in both grey and white matter for individual diagnosis of mTBI. The findings encourage further investigation of hypercapnic fMRI as a diagnostic tool for mTBI.
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- Suk-tak Chan
- Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and
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Krieger SN, Gauthier CJ, Ivanov D, Huber L, Roggenhofer E, Sehm B, Turner R, Egan GF. Regional reproducibility of calibrated BOLD functional MRI: Implications for the study of cognition and plasticity. Neuroimage 2014; 101:8-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2014] [Revised: 06/24/2014] [Accepted: 06/28/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Bhogal AA, Siero JC, Fisher JA, Froeling M, Luijten P, Philippens M, Hoogduin H. Investigating the non-linearity of the BOLD cerebrovascular reactivity response to targeted hypo/hypercapnia at 7T. Neuroimage 2014; 98:296-305. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Revised: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 05/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Reproducibility of hypocapnic cerebrovascular reactivity measurements using BOLD fMRI in combination with a paced deep breathing task. Neuroimage 2014; 98:31-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2013] [Revised: 04/14/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Tchistiakova E, Anderson ND, Greenwood CE, MacIntosh BJ. Combined effects of type 2 diabetes and hypertension associated with cortical thinning and impaired cerebrovascular reactivity relative to hypertension alone in older adults. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2014; 5:36-41. [PMID: 24967157 PMCID: PMC4066185 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2014] [Revised: 05/17/2014] [Accepted: 05/30/2014] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Type 2 diabetes mellitus is characterized by metabolic dysregulation in the form of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance and can have a profound impact on brain structure and vasculature. The primary aim of this study was to identify brain regions where the combined effects of type 2 diabetes and hypertension on brain health exceed those of hypertension alone. A secondary objective was to test whether vascular impairment and structural brain measures in this population are associated with cognitive function. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We enrolled 18 diabetic participants with hypertension (HTN + T2DM, 7 women, 71.8 ± 5.6 years) and 22 participants with hypertension only (HTN, 12 women, 73.4 ± 6.2 years). Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) was assessed using blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) MRI during successive breath holds. Gray matter structure was evaluated using cortical thickness (CThk) measures estimated from T1-weighted images. Analyses of cognitive and blood data were also performed. RESULTS Compared to HTN, HTN + T2DM had decreased CVR and CThk in a spatially overlapping region of the right occipital lobe (P < 0.025); CVR group differences were more expansive and included bilateral occipito-parietal areas (P < 0.025). Whereas CVR showed no significant associations with measures of cognitive function (P > 0.05), CThk in the right lingual gyrus ROI and regions resulting from a vertex-wise analysis (including posterior cingulate, precuneus, superior and middle frontal, and middle and inferior temporal regions (P < 0.025) were associated with executive function. CONCLUSIONS Individuals with T2DM and HTN showed decreased CVR and CThk compared to age-matched HTN controls. This study identifies brain regions that are impacted by the combined effects of comorbid T2DM and HTN conditions, with new evidence that the corresponding cortical thinning may contribute to cognitive decline.
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Key Words
- 3DMPRAGE, three-dimensional magnetization-prepared rapid gradient-echo
- BH, breath hold
- BOLD, blood oxygenation level dependent imaging
- CThk, cortical thickness
- CVR, cerebrovascular reactivity
- Cerebrovascular reactivity
- Cortical thickness
- Diabetes
- FLAIR, fluid attenuation inversion recovery
- FLEX, fuzzy lesion extractor
- HBA1C, hemoglobin A1C
- HTN, hypertension
- Hypertension
- T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus
- TICS, Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status
- WMH, white matter hyperintensities
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- Ekaterina Tchistiakova
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 610 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada ; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, 2075 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada ; Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, 2075 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada ; Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada ; Department of Medicine (Psychiatry), University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada ; Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, FitzGerald Building, 150 College Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, 610 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada ; Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, 2075 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada ; Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, 2075 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
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Sobczyk O, Battisti-Charbonney A, Fierstra J, Mandell D, Poublanc J, Crawley A, Mikulis D, Duffin J, Fisher J. A conceptual model for CO2-induced redistribution of cerebral blood flow with experimental confirmation using BOLD MRI. Neuroimage 2014; 92:56-68. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2013] [Revised: 01/24/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Pillai JJ, Mikulis DJ. Cerebrovascular reactivity mapping: an evolving standard for clinical functional imaging. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2014; 36:7-13. [PMID: 24788129 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a3941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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SUMMARY This review article explains the methodology of breath-hold cerebrovascular reactivity mapping, both in terms of acquisition and analysis, and reviews applications of this method to presurgical mapping, particularly with respect to blood oxygen level-dependent fMRI. Its main application in clinical fMRI is for the assessment of neurovascular uncoupling potential. Neurovascular uncoupling is potentially a major limitation of clinical fMRI, particularly in the setting of mass lesions in the brain such as brain tumors and intracranial vascular malformations that are associated with alterations in regional hemodynamics on either an acquired or congenital basis. As such, breath-hold cerebrovascular reactivity mapping constitutes an essential component of quality control analysis in clinical fMRI, particularly when performed for presurgical mapping of eloquent cortex. Exogenous carbon dioxide challenges used for cerebrovascular reactivity mapping will also be discussed, and their applications to the evaluation of cerebrovascular reserve and cerebrovascular disease will be described.
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- J J Pillai
- From the Division of Neuroradiology (J.J.P.), Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medical Imaging (D.J.M.), The University of Toronto, The University Health Network, The Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Tancredi FB, Lajoie I, Hoge RD. A simple breathing circuit allowing precise control of inspiratory gases for experimental respiratory manipulations. BMC Res Notes 2014; 7:235. [PMID: 24725848 PMCID: PMC4005461 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Background Respiratory manipulations modulating blood flow and oxygenation levels have become an important component of modern functional MRI applications. Manipulations often consist of temporarily switching inspired fractions of CO2 and O2; and have typically been performed using simple oxygen masks intended for applications in respiratory therapy. However, precise control of inspired gas composition is difficult using this type of mask due to entrainment of room air and resultant dilution of inspired gases. We aimed at developing a gas delivery apparatus allowing improved control over the fractional concentration of inspired gases, to be used in brain fMRI studies. Findings The breathing circuit we have conceived allowed well controlled step changes in FiO2 and FiCO2, at moderate flow rates achievable on standard clinical flow regulators. In a two run test inside the scanner we demonstrate that tightly controlled simple gas switching manipulations can afford good intra-subject reproducibility of induced hyperoxia/hypercapnia responses. Although our approach requires a non-vented mask fitting closely to the subject’s face, the circuit ensures a continuous supply of breathable air even if the supply of medical gases is interrupted, and is easily removable in case of an emergency. The apparatus we propose is also compact and MRI compatible, allowing subject placement in confined spaces such as an MRI scanner for brain examinations. Conclusions We have reported a new approach for the controlled administration of medical gases, and describe an implementation of the breathing circuit that is MRI compatible and uses commercially available parts. The resultant apparatus allows simple, safe and precise manipulations of FiO2 and FiCO2.
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- Felipe B Tancredi
- Institut de génie biomédical, Département de physiologie, Université de Montréal, C,P, 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada.
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Kannurpatti SS, Motes MA, Biswal BB, Rypma B. Assessment of unconstrained cerebrovascular reactivity marker for large age-range FMRI studies. PLoS One 2014; 9:e88751. [PMID: 24551151 PMCID: PMC3923811 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2013] [Accepted: 01/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Breath hold (BH), a commonly used task to measure cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in fMRI studies varies in outcome among individuals due to subject-physiology and/or BH-inspiration/expiration differences (i.e., performance). In prior age-related fMRI studies, smaller task-related BOLD response variability is observed among younger than older individuals. Also, a linear CVR versus task relationship exists in younger individuals which maybe useful to test the accuracy of CVR responses in older groups. Hence we hypothesized that subject-related physiological and/or BH differences, if present, may compromise CVR versus task linearity in older individuals. To test the hypothesis, empirical BH versus task relationships from motor and cognitive areas were obtained in younger (mean age = 26 years) and older (mean age = 58 years) human subjects. BH versus task linearity was observed only in the younger group, confirming our hypothesis. Further analysis indicated BH responses and its variability to be similar in both younger and older groups, suggesting that BH may not accurately represent CVR in a large age range. Using the resting state fluctuation of amplitude (RSFA) as an unconstrained alternative to BH, subject-wise correspondence between BH and RSFA was tested. Correlation between BH versus RSFA was significant within the motor but was not significant in the cognitive areas in the younger and was completely disrupted in both areas in the older subjects indicating that BH responses are constrained by subject-related physiology and/or performance-related differences. Contrasting BH to task, RSFA-task relationships were independent of age accompanied by age-related increases in CVR variability as measured by RSFA, not observed with BH. Together the results obtained indicate that RSFA accurately represents CVR in any age range avoiding multiple and yet unknown physiologic and task-related pitfalls of BH.
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- Sridhar S. Kannurpatti
- Department of Radiology, RUTGERS-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
- * E-mail: (SSK) (SK); (BR) (BR)
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, RUTGERS-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- * E-mail: (SSK) (SK); (BR) (BR)
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Cerebrovascular reactivity in the brain white matter: magnitude, temporal characteristics, and age effects. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2014; 34:242-7. [PMID: 24192640 PMCID: PMC3915204 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2013.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Revised: 09/27/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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White matter (WM) comprises about half of the brain and its dysfunction is implicated in many brain disorders. While structural properties in healthy and diseased WM have been extensively studied, relatively little is known about the physiology underlying these structural characteristics. Recent advances in magnetic resonance (MR) technologies provided new opportunities to better understand perfusion and microvasculature in the WM. Here, we aim to evaluate vasodilatory capacity of the WM vasculature, which is thought to be important in tissue ischemia and autoregulation. Fifteen younger and fifteen older subjects performed a CO2 inhalation task while blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images were continuously collected. The cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) index showed that the value of CVR in the WM (0.03±0.002%/mm Hg) was positive, but was significantly lower than that in the gray matter (GM) (0.22±0.01%/mm Hg). More strikingly, the WM response showed a temporal delay of 19±3 seconds compared with GM, which was attributed to the longer time it takes for extravascular CO2 to change. With age, WM CVR response becomes greater and faster, which is opposite to the changes seen in the GM. These data suggest that characteristics of WM CVR are different from that of GM and caution should be used when interpreting pathologic WM CVR results.
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Wilson SM. The impact of vascular factors on language localization in the superior temporal sulcus. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 35:4049-63. [PMID: 24452906 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2013] [Revised: 11/27/2013] [Accepted: 12/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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The left superior temporal sulcus (STS) has been shown in numerous functional imaging studies to be a critical region for language processing, as it is reliably activated when language comprehension is compared with acoustically matched control conditions. Studies in non-human primates have demonstrated several subdivisions in the STS, yet the precise region(s) within the STS that are important for language remain unclear, in large part because the presence of draining veins in the sulcus makes it difficult to determine whether neural activity is localized to the dorsal or ventral bank of the sulcus. We used functional MRI to localize language regions, and then acquired several additional sequences in order to account for the impact of vascular factors. A breath-holding task was used to induce hypercapnia in order to normalize voxel-wise differences in blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) responsivity, and veins were identified on susceptibility-weighted and T2*-weighted BOLD images, and masked out. We found that the precise locations of language areas in individual participants were strongly influenced by vascular factors, but that these vascular effects could be ameliorated by hypercapnic normalization and vein masking. After these corrections were applied, the majority of regions activated by language processing were localized to the dorsal bank of the STS.
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- Stephen M Wilson
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Department of Neurology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Bright MG, Murphy K. Reliable quantification of BOLD fMRI cerebrovascular reactivity despite poor breath-hold performance. Neuroimage 2013; 83:559-68. [PMID: 23845426 PMCID: PMC3899001 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Revised: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 07/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) can be mapped using BOLD fMRI to provide a clinical insight into vascular health that can be used to diagnose cerebrovascular disease. Breath-holds are a readily accessible method for producing the required arterial CO2 increases but their implementation into clinical studies is limited by concerns that patients will demonstrate highly variable performance of breath-hold challenges. This study assesses the repeatability of CVR measurements despite poor task performance, to determine if and how robust results could be achieved with breath-holds in patients. Twelve healthy volunteers were scanned at 3 T. Six functional scans were acquired, each consisting of 6 breath-hold challenges (10, 15, or 20 s duration) interleaved with periods of paced breathing. These scans simulated the varying breath-hold consistency and ability levels that may occur in patient data. Uniform ramps, time-scaled ramps, and end-tidal CO2 data were used as regressors in a general linear model in order to measure CVR at the grey matter, regional, and voxelwise level. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) quantified the repeatability of the CVR measurement for each breath-hold regressor type and scale of interest across the variable task performances. The ramp regressors did not fully account for variability in breath-hold performance and did not achieve acceptable repeatability (ICC<0.4) in several regions analysed. In contrast, the end-tidal CO2 regressors resulted in "excellent" repeatability (ICC=0.82) in the average grey matter data, and resulted in acceptable repeatability in all smaller regions tested (ICC>0.4). Further analysis of intra-subject CVR variability across the brain (ICCspatial and voxelwise correlation) supported the use of end-tidal CO2 data to extract robust whole-brain CVR maps, despite variability in breath-hold performance. We conclude that the incorporation of end-tidal CO2 monitoring into scanning enables robust, repeatable measurement of CVR that makes breath-hold challenges suitable for routine clinical practice.
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- Molly G Bright
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, CF10 3AT Cardiff, UK.
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