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Pan JW, Terpstra MJ, Moon CH, Hetherington HP. Map-based B 0 shimming for single voxel brain spectroscopy at 7T. NMR Biomed 2023; 36:e5021. [PMID: 37586403 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.5021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023]
Abstract
While B0 shimming is an important requirement for in vivo brain spectroscopy, for single voxel spectroscopy (SVS), the role for advanced shim methods has been questioned. Specifically, with the small spatial dimensions of the voxel, the extent to which inhomogeneities higher than second order exist and the ability of higher order shims to correct them is controversial. To assess this, we acquired SVS from two loci of neurophysiological interest, the rostral prefrontal cortex (rPFC; 8 cc) and hippocampus (Hc; 9 cc). The rPFC voxel was placed using SUsceptibility Managed Optimization (SUMO) and an initial B0 map that covers the entire cerebrum to cerebellum. In each location, we compared map-based shimming (Bolero) with projection-based shimming (FAST(EST)MAP). We also compared vendor-provided spherical harmonic first- and second-order shims with additional third- and fourth-order shim hardware. The 7T SVS acquisition used stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) TR/TM/TE of 6 s/20 ms/8 ms, a tissue water acquisition for concentration reference, and LCModel for spectral analysis. In the rPFC (n = 7 subjects), Bolero shimming with first- and second-order shims reduced the residual inhomogeneity σ B 0 from 9.8 ± 4.5 Hz with FAST(EST)MAP to 6.5 ± 2.0 Hz. The addition of third- and fourth-order shims further reduced σ B 0 to 4.0 ± 0.8 Hz. In the Hc (n = 7 subjects), FAST(EST)MAP, Bolero with first- and second-order shims, and Bolero with first- to fourth-order shims achieved σ B 0 values of 8.6 ± 1.9, 5.6 ± 1.0, and 4.6 ± 0.9 Hz, respectively. The spectral linewidth,Δ v σ B 0 , was estimated with a Voigt lineshape using σ B 0 and T2 = 130 ms.Δ v σ B 0 significantly correlated with the Cramer-Rao lower bounds and concentrations of several metabolites, including glutamate and glutamine in the rPFC. In both loci, if the B0 distribution is well described by a Gaussian model, the variance of the metabolite concentrations is reduced, consistent with the LCModel fit based on a unimodal lineshape. Overall, the use of the high order and map-based B0 shim methods improved the accuracy and consistency of spectroscopic data.
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- Jullie W Pan
- Department Radiology, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Department Radiology, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
- Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Department Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department Radiology, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
- Resonance Research Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, USA
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Mayeli A, Janssen SA, Huston CA, Rupp JS, Sharma K, Moon CH, Keihani A, Hetherington HP, Ferrarelli F. N-Acetylaspartate and Choline Metabolites in Cortical and Subcortical Regions in Clinical High Risk Relative to Healthy Control Subjects: An Exploratory 7T MRSI Study. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24097682. [PMID: 37175389 PMCID: PMC10178465 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24097682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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N-acetylaspartate (NAA) and choline (Cho) are two brain metabolites implicated in several key neuronal functions. Abnormalities in these metabolites have been reported in both early course and chronic patients with schizophrenia (SCZ). It is, however, unclear whether NAA and Cho's alterations occur even before the onset of the disorder. Clinical high risk (CHR) individuals are a population uniquely enriched for psychosis and SCZ. In this exploratory study, we utilized 7-Tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) to examine differences in total NAA (tNAA; NAA + N-acetylaspartylglutamate [NAAG]) and major choline-containing compounds, including glycerophosphorylcholine and phosphorylcholine [tCho], over the creatine (Cre) levels between 26 CHR and 32 healthy control (HC) subjects in the subcortical and cortical regions. While no tCho/Cre differences were found between groups in any of the regions of interest (ROIs), we found that CHR had significantly reduced tNAA/Cre in the right dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) compared to HC, and that the right DLPFC tNAA/Cre reduction in CHR was negatively associated with their positive symptoms scores. No tNAA/Cre differences were found between CHR and HC in other ROIs. In conclusion, reduced tNAA/Cre in CHR vs. HC may represent a putative molecular biomarker for risk of psychosis and SCZ that is associated with symptom severity.
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- Ahmad Mayeli
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Sonnenschein SF, Mayeli A, Yushmanov VE, Blazer A, Calabro FJ, Perica M, Foran W, Luna B, Hetherington HP, Ferrarelli F, Sarpal DK. A longitudinal investigation of GABA, glutamate, and glutamine across the insula during antipsychotic treatment of first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2022; 248:98-106. [PMID: 36029656 PMCID: PMC10018530 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Individuals with first-episode schizophrenia (FES) typically present with acute psychotic symptoms. Though antipsychotic drugs are the mainstay for treatment, the neurobiology underlying successful treatment remains largely elusive. Recent evidence from functional connectivity studies highlights the insula as a key structure in the neural mechanism of response. However, molecular contributions to response across insular regions remain largely unknown. We used 7-Tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) to measure glutamate (Glu), Glutamine (Gln), and GABA from anterior and posterior regions of the insula across antipsychotic treatment. A total of 36 participants were examined, including 15 individuals with FES and moderate to severe psychosis who were scanned at two time points, while starting and after 6 weeks of antipsychotic treatment. Symptoms were carefully monitored across the study period to characterize treatment response. GABA, Glu, and Gln levels were calculated relative to creatine in anterior and posterior insular regions, bilaterally. In relation to psychotic symptom reduction, we observed a significant increase in Glu across all insular regions with (p < 0.001), but no corresponding changes in Gln or GABA. In group analyses, the FES cohort showed lower levels of Glu (p < 0.001) and GABA (p = 0.02) at baseline. Finally, in exploratory analyses, treatment remitters demonstrated a normalization of lower insular Glu levels across treatment, unlike non-remitters. Overall, these findings contribute to our understating of molecular changes associated with antipsychotic response and demonstrate abnormalities specific to the insula in FES.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Pan JW, Antony A, Tal A, Yushmanov V, Fong J, Richardson M, Schirda C, Bagic A, Gonen O, Hetherington HP. MR spectroscopic imaging at 3 T and outcomes in surgical epilepsy. NMR Biomed 2021; 34:e4492. [PMID: 33751687 PMCID: PMC8122073 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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For the spectroscopic assessment of brain disorders that require large-volume coverage, the requirements of RF performance and field homogeneity are high. For epilepsy, this is also challenging given the inter-patient variation in location, severity and subtlety of anatomical identification and its tendency to involve the temporal region. We apply a targeted method to examine the utility of large-volume MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) in surgical epilepsy patients, implementing a two-step acquisition, comprised of a 3D acquisition to cover the fronto-parietal regions, and a contiguous parallel two-slice Hadamard-encoded acquisition to cover the temporal-occipital region, both with TR /TE = 2000/40 ms and matched acquisition times. With restricted (static, first/second-order) B0 shimming in their respective regions, the Cramér-Rao lower bounds for creatine from the temporal lobe two-slice Hadamard and frontal-parietal 3D acquisition are 8.1 ± 2.2% and 6.3 ± 1.9% respectively. The datasets are combined to provide a total 60 mm axial coverage over the frontal, parietal and superior temporal to middle temporal-occipital regions. We applied these acquisitions at a nominal 400 mm3 voxel resolution in n = 27 pre-surgical epilepsy patients and n = 20 controls. In controls, 86.6 ± 3.2% voxels with at least 50% tissue (white + gray matter, excluding CSF) survived spectral quality inclusion criteria. Since all patients were clinically followed for at least 1 year after surgery, seizure frequency outcome was available for all. The MRSI measurements of the total fractional metabolic dysfunction (characterized by the Cr/NAA metric) in FreeSurfer MRI gray matter segmented regions, in the patients compared with the controls, exhibited a significant Spearman correlation with post-surgical outcome. This finding suggests that a larger burden of metabolic dysfunction is seen in patients with poorer post-surgical seizure control.
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- Jullie W Pan
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Radiology, New York University, New York, New York
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Tal A, Zhao T, Schirda C, Hetherington HP, Pan JW, Gonen O. Fast, regional three-dimensional hybrid (1D-Hadamard 2D-rosette) proton MR spectroscopic imaging in the human temporal lobes. NMR Biomed 2021; 34:e4507. [PMID: 33754420 PMCID: PMC8122085 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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1 H-MRSI is commonly performed with gradient phase encoding, due to its simplicity and minimal radio frequency (RF) heating (specific absorption rate). Its two well-known main problems-(i) "voxel bleed" due to the intrinsic point-spread function, and (ii) chemical shift displacement error (CSDE) when slice-selective RF pulses are used, which worsens with increasing volume of interest (VOI) size-have long become accepted as unavoidable. Both problems can be mitigated with Hadamard multislice RF encoding. This is demonstrated and quantified with numerical simulations, in a multislice phantom and in five healthy young adult volunteers at 3 T, targeting a 2-cm thick temporal lobe VOI through the bilateral hippocampus. This frequently targeted region (e.g. in epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease) is subject to strong, 1-2 ppm.cm-1 regional B0, susceptibility gradients that can dramatically reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and water suppression effectiveness. The chemical shift imaging (CSI) sequence used a 3-ms Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) 90° RF pulse, acquiring eight steps in the slice direction. The Hadamard sequence acquired two overlapping slices using the same SLR 90° pulses, under twofold stronger gradients that proportionally halved the CSDE. Both sequences used 2D 20 × 20 rosette spectroscopic imaging (RSI) for in-plane spatial localization and both used RF and gradient performance characteristics that are easily met by all modern MRI instruments. The results show that Hadamard spectroscopic imaging (HSI) suffered dramatically less signal bleed within the VOI compared with CSI (<1% vs. approximately 26% in simulations; and 5%-8% vs. >50%) in a phantom specifically designed to test these effects. The voxels' SNR per unit volume per unit time was also 40% higher for HSI. In a group of five healthy volunteers, we show that HSI with in-plane 2D-RSI facilitates fast, 3D multivoxel encoding at submilliliter spatial resolution, over the bilateral human hippocampus, in under 10 min, with negligible CSDE, spectral and spatial contamination and more than 6% improved SNR per unit time per unit volume.
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- Assaf Tal
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Quiñones GM, Mayeli A, Yushmanov VE, Hetherington HP, Ferrarelli F. Reduced GABA/glutamate in the thalamus of individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. Neuropsychopharmacology 2021; 46:1133-1139. [PMID: 33273706 PMCID: PMC8115482 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-020-00920-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Youth at clinical high risk (CHR) are a unique population enriched for precursors of major psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia (SCZ). Recent neuroimaging findings point to abnormalities in the thalamus of patients with SCZ, including chronic and early course patients, as well as in CHR individuals relative to healthy comparison groups, thus suggesting that thalamic dysfunctions are present even before illness onset. Furthermore, modeling data indicate that alteration between excitatory and inhibitory control, as reflected by alteration in GABAergic and glutamatergic balance (i.e., GABA/Glu), may underlie thalamic deficits linked to the risk and development of psychosis. There is, however, a lack of in vivo evidence of GABA/Glu thalamic abnormalities in the CHR state. Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) 7 Tesla (7 T) provides enhanced resolution to quantify GABA and Glu levels in the thalamus of CHR individuals. In this study, we performed 7 T MRSI in 15 CHR and 20 healthy control (HC) participants. We found that GABA/Glu was significantly reduced in the right medial anterior and right medial posterior thalamus of CHR relative to HC groups. The GABA/Glu reduction was negatively correlated with general symptoms in the right medial anterior thalamus, as well as with disorganization symptoms in the right medial posterior thalamus. Altogether, these findings indicate that GABA/Glu abnormalities are present in the thalamus before the onset of full-blown psychosis and are associated with symptom severity, thus providing putative molecular and neuronal targets for early interventions in youth at CHR.
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- Gonzalo M. Quiñones
- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Juchem C, Cudalbu C, de Graaf RA, Gruetter R, Henning A, Hetherington HP, Boer VO. B 0 shimming for in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Experts' consensus recommendations. NMR Biomed 2021; 34:e4350. [PMID: 32596978 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) allow the chemical analysis of physiological processes in vivo and provide powerful tools in the life sciences and for clinical diagnostics. Excellent homogeneity of the static B0 magnetic field over the object of interest is essential for achieving high-quality spectral results and quantitative metabolic measurements. The experimental minimization of B0 variation is performed in a process called B0 shimming. In this article, we summarize the concepts of B0 field shimming using spherical harmonic shimming techniques, specific strategies for B0 homogenization and crucial factors to consider for implementation and use in both brain and body. In addition, experts' recommendations are provided for minimum requirements for B0 shim hardware and evaluation criteria for the primary outcome of adequate B0 shimming for MRS and MRSI, such as the water spectroscopic linewidth.
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- Christoph Juchem
- Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Centre d'Imagerie Biomedicale (CIBM), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Li X, Pan JW, Avdievich NI, Hetherington HP, Rispoli JV. Electromagnetic simulation of a 16-channel head transceiver at 7 T using circuit-spatial optimization. Magn Reson Med 2021; 85:3463-3478. [PMID: 33533500 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE With increased interest in parallel transmission in ultrahigh-field MRI, methods are needed to correctly calculate the S-parameters and complex field maps of the parallel transmission coil. We present S-parameters paired with spatial field optimization to fully simulate a double-row 16-element transceiver array for brain MRI at 7 T. METHODS We implemented a closed-form equation of the coil S-parameters and overall spatial B 1 + field. We minimized a cost function, consisting of coil S-parameters and the B 1 + homogeneity in brain tissue, by optimizing transceiver components, including matching, decoupling circuits, and lumped capacitors. With this, we are able to compare the in silico results determined with and without B 1 + homogeneity weighting. Using the known voltage range from the host console, we reconstructed the B 1 + maps of the array and performed RF shimming with four realistic head models. RESULTS As performed with B 1 + homogeneity weighting, the optimized coil circuit components were highly consistent over the four heads, producing well-tuned, matched, and decoupled coils. The mean peak forward powers and B 1 + statistics for the head models are consistent with in vivo human results (N = 8). There are systematic differences in the transceiver components as optimized with or without B 1 + homogeneity weighting, resulting in an improvement of 28.4 ± 7.5% in B 1 + homogeneity with a small 1.9 ± 1.5% decline in power efficiency. CONCLUSION This co-simulation methodology accurately simulates the transceiver, predicting consistent S-parameters, component values, and B 1 + field. The RF shimming of the calculated field maps match the in vivo performance.
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- Xin Li
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- High-Field MR Center, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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Hetherington HP, Moon CH, Schwerter M, Shah NJ, Pan JW. Dynamic B 0 shimming for multiband imaging using high order spherical harmonic shims. Magn Reson Med 2020; 85:531-543. [PMID: 32857424 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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PURPOSE To describe and implement a strategy for dynamic slice-by-slice and multiband B0 shimming using spherical harmonic shims in the human brain at 7T. THEORY For thin axial slices, spherical harmonic shims can be divided into pairs of shims (z-degenerate and non-z-degenerate) that are spatially degenerate, such that only ½ of the shims (non-z-degenerate) are required for single slice optimizations. However, when combined, the pairs of shims can be used to simultaneously generate the same in-plane symmetries but with different amplitudes as a function of their z location. This enables multiband shimming equivalent to that achievable by single slice-by-slice optimization. METHODS All data were acquired at 7T using a spherical harmonic shim insert enabling shimming up through 4th order with two additional 5th order shims (1st-4th+). Dynamic shim updating was achieved using a 10A shim power supply with 2 ms ramps and constrained optimizations to minimize eddy currents. RESULTS In groups of eight subjects, we demonstrated that: 1) dynamic updating using 1st-4th+ order shims reduced the SD of the B0 field over the whole brain from 32.4 ± 2.6 and 24.9 ± 2 Hz with 1st-2nd and 1st-4th+ static global shimming to 15.1 ± 1.7 Hz; 2) near equivalent performance was achieved when dynamically updating only the non-z-degenerate shims (14.3 ± 1.5 Hz), or when a using multiband shim factor of 2, MBs = 2, and all shims (14.4 ± 2.0 Hz). CONCLUSION High order spherical harmonics provide substantial improvements over static global shimming and enable dynamic multiband shimming with near equivalent performance to that of dynamic slice-by-slice shimming. This reduces distortion in echo planar imaging.
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- Hoby P Hetherington
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4, Forschungszentrum, INM-4, Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4, Forschungszentrum, INM-4, Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.,Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 11, JARA, Forschungszentrum, INM-11, Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.,JARA - BRAIN - Translational Medicine, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.,Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Li X, Gong H, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Rispoli JV. Modelling and B1 Shim Analysis of 16-Element Transceiver Array at 7 T. Int Conf Electromagn Adv Appl 2019; 2019:1291-1295. [PMID: 32181448 PMCID: PMC7075652 DOI: 10.1109/iceaa.2019.8879006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
The work examines the workflow of using commercially available software for electromagnetic modelling and validation of a transceiver array coil operating at 298 MHz for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy at 7 T. The coneshaped, tight-fit parallel transmit head array consists of two rows with eight loop coils per row and transmits two distinct spatial distributions by means of B 1 shimming. Considerations for finite-difference time-domain simulation setup and post-processing with circuit-domain co-simulation are examined, as is the generation of virtual observation points suitable for online safety monitoring.
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- Xin Li
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Wilson M, Andronesi O, Barker PB, Bartha R, Bizzi A, Bolan PJ, Brindle KM, Choi IY, Cudalbu C, Dydak U, Emir UE, Gonzalez RG, Gruber S, Gruetter R, Gupta RK, Heerschap A, Henning A, Hetherington HP, Huppi PS, Hurd RE, Kantarci K, Kauppinen RA, Klomp DWJ, Kreis R, Kruiskamp MJ, Leach MO, Lin AP, Luijten PR, Marjańska M, Maudsley AA, Meyerhoff DJ, Mountford CE, Mullins PG, Murdoch JB, Nelson SJ, Noeske R, Öz G, Pan JW, Peet AC, Poptani H, Posse S, Ratai EM, Salibi N, Scheenen TWJ, Smith ICP, Soher BJ, Tkáč I, Vigneron DB, Howe FA. Methodological consensus on clinical proton MRS of the brain: Review and recommendations. Magn Reson Med 2019; 82:527-550. [PMID: 30919510 PMCID: PMC7179569 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Revised: 02/01/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Proton MRS (1 H MRS) provides noninvasive, quantitative metabolite profiles of tissue and has been shown to aid the clinical management of several brain diseases. Although most modern clinical MR scanners support MRS capabilities, routine use is largely restricted to specialized centers with good access to MR research support. Widespread adoption has been slow for several reasons, and technical challenges toward obtaining reliable good-quality results have been identified as a contributing factor. Considerable progress has been made by the research community to address many of these challenges, and in this paper a consensus is presented on deficiencies in widely available MRS methodology and validated improvements that are currently in routine use at several clinical research institutions. In particular, the localization error for the PRESS localization sequence was found to be unacceptably high at 3 T, and use of the semi-adiabatic localization by adiabatic selective refocusing sequence is a recommended solution. Incorporation of simulated metabolite basis sets into analysis routines is recommended for reliably capturing the full spectral detail available from short TE acquisitions. In addition, the importance of achieving a highly homogenous static magnetic field (B0 ) in the acquisition region is emphasized, and the limitations of current methods and hardware are discussed. Most recommendations require only software improvements, greatly enhancing the capabilities of clinical MRS on existing hardware. Implementation of these recommendations should strengthen current clinical applications and advance progress toward developing and validating new MRS biomarkers for clinical use.
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- Martin Wilson
- Centre for Human Brain Health and School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
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- Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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- U.O. Neuroradiologia, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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- Department of Neurology, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram, Haryana, India
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Stanford Radiological Sciences Lab, Stanford, California
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
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- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- CRUK Cancer Imaging Centre, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, London, England
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- DVA Medical Center and Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Bangor Imaging Unit, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
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- Centre for Preclinical Imaging, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
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- Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- MR R&D, Siemens Healthineers, Malvern, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Molecular and Clinical Sciences, St George's University of London, London, England
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Pan JW, Moon CH, Hetherington HP. Cerebrospinal fluid-suppressed T 2 -weighted MR imaging at 7 T for human brain. Magn Reson Med 2019; 81:2924-2936. [PMID: 30450583 PMCID: PMC6590483 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2018] [Revised: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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PURPOSE T2 -weighted lesional imaging is most commonly performed using inversion recovery turbo spin echoes. At 7 T, however, this acquisition is limited for specific absorption rate and resolution. This work describes and implements a method to generate CSF-suppressed T2 -weighted imaging. METHODS The strategy uses a driven equilibrium spin-echo preparation within an inversion recovery with multiple 3D gradient-echo imaging blocks. Images are combined using the self-normalization approach, which achieves CSF suppression through optimized timing of individual blocks and minimizes sources of variation due to coil receptivity, T2* , and proton density. Simulations of the magnetization-prepared fluid-attenuated inversion recovery gradient-echo (MPFLAGRE) method over T1 and T2 relaxation values are performed, and in vivo demonstrations using an 8 × 2 transceiver array in healthy controls are shown. RESULTS The specific absorption rate of the calculated MPFLAGRE sequence is 11.1 ± 0.5 W (n = 5 volunteers), which is 74 ± 2% of the US Food and Drug Administration guidelines. This method acquires both contrasts for CSF suppression with detection of long T2 components and T2 -weighted imaging in a single acquisition. In healthy controls, the former contrast generates increased signal in the cortical rim and ependyma. A comparison is shown with a conventional 3D SPACE fluid-attenuated inversion recovery acquisition, and sensitivity to pathology is demonstrated in an epilepsy patient. CONCLUSION As applied with the 8 × 2 transceiver, the MPFLAGRE sequence generates both whole-brain contrast suitable for lesional and T2 -weighted imaging at 7 T in fewer than 10 minutes within the US Food and Drug Administration's specific absorption rate guidelines.
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- Jullie W. Pan
- Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of RadiologyUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPennsylvania
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- Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of RadiologyUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPennsylvania
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- Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of RadiologyUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPennsylvania
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Kirov II, Kuzniecky R, Hetherington HP, Soher BJ, Davitz MS, Babb JS, Pardoe HR, Pan JW, Gonen O. Erratum to “Whole brain neuronal abnormalities in focal epilepsy quantified with proton MR spectroscopy” [Epilepsy Res. 139 (2018) 85–91]. Epilepsy Res 2018; 143:130. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Kontos AP, Van Cott AC, Roberts J, Pan JW, Kelly MB, McAllister-Deitrick J, Hetherington HP. Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Findings in Veterans With Blast Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Mil Med 2018; 182:99-104. [PMID: 28291459 DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-16-00177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To compare magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) findings from the hippocampal regions of military veterans with blast-related mild traumatic brain injury (blast mTBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to those with PTSD only; and to examine the relationship of MRSI findings to cognitive and neuromotor impairment. METHODS 35 military veterans-23 with blast mTBI and PTSD (blast mTBI/PTSD) and 12 with PTSD only participated in the study. Whole plane MRSI data including N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) and choline (Ch) were acquired at 7T for the hippocampus. Concurrent cognitive and neuromotor data were collected using established assessments. General linear models (GLMs) with Bonferroni correction were used to compare the two groups on NAA/Ch ratios across regions of the hippocampus. Spearman's correlations were used to examine correlations between NAA/Ch and cognitive and neuromotor impairment. RESULTS The NAA/Ch results for the left hippocampus were lower in the blast mTBI/PTSD group than the PTSD-only group. The blast mTBI/PTSD group also scored worse on the WAIS-IV-vocabulary. Significant correlations between NAA/Ch and neuromotor outcomes-including vestibular impairment-were supported. CONCLUSIONS Combined MRSI and cognitive and neuromotor data may help inform more objective and accurate diagnoses and effective treatments for patients with blast mTBI and PTSD.
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- Anthony P Kontos
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Avenue, #1010, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, University Drive C, Pittsburgh, PA 15240
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- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, University Drive C, Pittsburgh, PA 15240
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, 811 Kaufmann Medical Building, 3471 Fifth Avenue #810, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, University Drive C, Pittsburgh, PA 15240
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Avenue, #1010, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Magnetic Resonance Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Kirov II, Kuzniecky R, Hetherington HP, Soher BJ, Davitz MS, Babb JS, Pardoe HR, Pan JW, Gonen O. Whole brain neuronal abnormalities in focal epilepsy quantified with proton MR spectroscopy. Epilepsy Res 2018; 139:85-91. [PMID: 29212047 PMCID: PMC6411059 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2017.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 11/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that localization-related epilepsy is associated with widespread neuronal dysfunction beyond the ictal focus, reflected by a decrease in patients' global concentration of their proton MR spectroscopy (1H-MRS) observed marker, N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA). METHODS Thirteen patients with localization-related epilepsy (7 men, 6 women) 40±13 (mean±standard-deviation)years old, 8.3±13.4years of disease duration; and 14 matched controls, were scanned at 3 T with MRI and whole-brain (WB) 1H MRS. Intracranial fractions of brain volume, gray and white matter (fBV, fGM, fWM) were segmented from the MRI, and global absolute NAA creatine (Cr) and choline (Cho) concentrations were estimated from their WB 1H MRS. These metrics were compared between patients and controls using an unequal variance t test. RESULTS Patients' fBV, fGM and fWM: 0.81±0.07, 0.47±0.04, 0.31±0.04 were not different from controls' 0.79±0.05, 0.48±0.04, 0.32±0.02; nor were their Cr and Cho concentrations: 7.1±1.1 and 1.3±0.2 millimolar (mM) versus 7.7±0.7 and 1.4±0.1mM (p>0.05 all). Patients' global NAA concentration: 11.5±1.5 mM, however, was 12% lower than controls' 13.0±0.8mM (p=0.004). CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that neuronal dysfunction in localization-related epilepsy extends globally, beyond the ictal zone, but without atrophy or spectroscopic evidence of other pathology. This suggests a diffuse decline in the neurons' health, rather than their number, early in the disease course. WB 1H-MRS assessment, therefore, may be a useful tool for quantification of global neuronal dysfunction load in epilepsy.
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- Ivan I Kirov
- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, USA.
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- Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, New York University School of Medicine,New York City, NY, USA.
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- Department of Radiology and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA.
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- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, USA.
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- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, USA.
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- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, USA.
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- Department of Radiology and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, USA.
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Schirda CV, Zhao T, Yushmanov VE, Lee Y, Ghearing GR, Lieberman FS, Panigrahy A, Hetherington HP, Pan JW. Fast 3D rosette spectroscopic imaging of neocortical abnormalities at 3 T: Assessment of spectral quality. Magn Reson Med 2017; 79:2470-2480. [PMID: 28905419 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Revised: 08/11/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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PURPOSE To use a fast 3D rosette spectroscopic imaging acquisition to quantitatively evaluate how spectral quality influences detection of the endogenous variation of gray and white matter metabolite differences in controls, and demonstrate how rosette spectroscopic imaging can detect metabolic dysfunction in patients with neocortical abnormalities. METHODS Data were acquired on a 3T MR scanner and 32-channel head coil, with rosette spectroscopic imaging covering a 4-cm slab of fronto-parietal-temporal lobes. The influence of acquisition parameters and filtering on spectral quality and sensitivity to tissue composition was assessed by LCModel analysis, the Cramer-Rao lower bound, and the standard errors from regression analyses. The optimized protocol was used to generate normative white and gray matter regressions and evaluate three patients with neocortical abnormalities. RESULTS As a measure of the sensitivity to detect abnormalities, the standard errors of regression for Cr/NAA and Ch/NAA were significantly correlated with the Cramer-Rao lower bound values (R = 0.89 and 0.92, respectively, both with P < 0.001). The rosette acquisition with a duration of 9.6 min, produces a mean Cramer-Rao lower bound (%) over the entire slab of 4.6 ± 2.6 and 5.8 ± 2.3 for NAA and Cr, respectively. This enables a Cr/NAA standard error of 0.08 (i.e., detection sensitivity of 25% for a 50/50 mixed gray and white matter voxel). In healthy controls, the regression of Cr/NAA versus fraction gray matter in the cingulate differs from frontal and parietal regions. CONCLUSIONS Fast rosette spectroscopic imaging acquisitions with regression analyses are able to identify metabolic differences across 4-cm slabs of the brain centrally and over the cortical periphery with high efficiency, generating results that are consistent with clinical findings. Magn Reson Med 79:2470-2480, 2018. © 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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- Claudiu V Schirda
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Siemens Healthcare, Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Kim T, Lee Y, Zhao T, Hetherington HP, Pan JW. Gradient-echo EPI using a high-degree shim insert coil at 7 T: Implications for BOLD fMRI. Magn Reson Med 2016; 78:1734-1745. [PMID: 27910126 PMCID: PMC6084307 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Revised: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Purpose To quantitatively assess the effects of high degree and order (1st–4th+) relative to 1st–2nd degree B0 shimming at 7 Tesla (T) on gradient‐echo echo planar imaging (GE‐EPI) and blood‐oxygen‐level dependent (BOLD) activation. Methods Simulations and GE‐EPI were performed at (2mm)3 and (3mm)3 resolution, evaluating the temporal signal‐to‐noise ratio (tSNR), transverse relaxivity (
R2*), BOLD % signal change and activated pixel counts in a breath‐hold task. Results Comparing the 1st–4th+ degree with 1st–2nd degree shimmed B0 maps generated spatially varying regions of
Δ|B0|=|B01−2|−|B01−4+|. As binned in 10‐Hz intervals, the two center Δ|B0| (±10 Hz) bins maintained the B0 offset of 48.6% of gray‐matter pixels. In the positive Δ|B0| bins greater than 10 Hz, the 1st–4th+degree shimming improved the B0 offset in 41.1%; in negative Δ|B0| bins less than −10 Hz, the offset worsened in 10.2% of the pixels. In the positive Δ|B0| bins, we found variable but significant increases in BOLD sensitivity; the negative Δ|B0| bins showed significant decreases. In the breath‐hold studies, positive bins showed significantly increased activated pixel numbers (+5–29%), whereas negative bins showed −18 to 0% decline. Conclusion 1st–4th+ degree shimming maintained B0 homogeneity over central brain regions while improving most of the other regions, including the inferior frontal lobe. Magn Reson Med 78:1734–1745, 2017. © 2016 The Authors Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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- Tae Kim
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Siemens Healthineers, USA, Siemens Medical Solution USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Topfer R, Starewicz P, Lo KM, Metzemaekers K, Jette D, Hetherington HP, Stikov N, Cohen-Adad J. A 24-channel shim array for the human spinal cord: Design, evaluation, and application. Magn Reson Med 2016; 76:1604-1611. [PMID: 27487798 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Revised: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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PURPOSE A novel multichannel shim array is introduced to improve MRI and spectroscopic studies of the human spinal cord. METHODS Twenty-four-channel shim and 8-channel transceiver arrays were designed to insert into the patient bed table to lie in close proximity to the subject's spine. The reference field patterns of each of the shim channels (Hz/A) were determined empirically via gradient echo field mapping and subsequently used to demonstrate shim performance at 3 Tesla using an ex vivo phantom, which incorporated a fixed human spine. The shim was further demonstrated on five healthy volunteers. RESULTS Application of the shim to the ex vivo phantom reduced the standard deviation of the field over the spinal volume of interest (123.4 cm3 ) from an original 51.3 Hz down to 32.5 Hz, amounting to an improvement in field homogeneity of 36.6%. In vivo, the spine shim resulted in an average improvement in field homogeneity of 63.8 ± 15.4%. CONCLUSION The localized spine shim offers a promising new means of correcting magnetic field distortion in the spinal cord. Magn Reson Med 76:1604-1611, 2016. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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- Ryan Topfer
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Resonance Research Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, USA
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- Resonance Research Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. .,Functional Neuroimaging Unit, CRIUGM, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Schirda CV, Zhao T, Andronesi OC, Lee Y, Pan JW, Mountz JM, Hetherington HP, Boada FE. In vivo brain rosette spectroscopic imaging (RSI) with LASER excitation, constant gradient strength readout, and automated LCModel quantification for all voxels. Magn Reson Med 2015; 76:380-90. [PMID: 26308482 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2014] [Revised: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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PURPOSE To optimize the Rosette trajectories for high-sensitivity in vivo brain spectroscopic imaging and reduced gradient demands. METHODS Using LASER localization, a rosette based sampling scheme for in vivo brain spectroscopic imaging data on a 3 Tesla (T) system is described. The two-dimensional (2D) and 3D rosette spectroscopic imaging (RSI) data were acquired using 20 × 20 in-plane resolution (8 × 8 mm(2) ), and 1 (2D) -18 mm (1.1 cc) or 12 (3D) -8 mm partitions (0.5 cc voxels). The performance of the RSI acquisition was compared with a conventional spectroscopic imaging (SI) sequence using LASER localization and 2D or 3D elliptical phase encoding (ePE). Quantification of the entire RSI data set was performed using an LCModel based pipeline. RESULTS The RSI acquisitions took 32 s for the 2D scan, and as short as 5 min for the 3D 20 × 20 × 12 scan, using a maximum gradient strength Gmax=5.8 mT/m and slew-rate Smax=45 mT/m/ms. The Bland-Altman agreement between RSI and ePE CSI, characterized by the 95% confidence interval for their difference (RSI-ePE), is within 13% of the mean (RSI+ePE)/2. Compared with the 3D ePE at the same nominal resolution, the effective RSI voxel size was three times smaller while the measured signal-to-noise ratio sensitivity, after normalization for differences in effective size, was 43% greater. CONCLUSION 3D LASER-RSI is a fast, high-sensitivity spectroscopic imaging sequence, which can acquire medium-to-high resolution SI data in clinically acceptable scan times (5-10 min), with reduced stress on the gradient system. Magn Reson Med 76:380-390, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Claudiu V Schirda
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Siemens Healthcare, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- New York University, Department of Radiology, New York, New York, USA
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Landis CS, Zhou H, Liu L, Hetherington HP, Guha C. Liver regeneration and energetic changes in rats following hepatic radiation therapy and hepatocyte transplantation by ³¹P MRSI. Liver Int 2015; 35:1145-51. [PMID: 25775097 PMCID: PMC4363097 DOI: 10.1111/liv.12507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2013] [Accepted: 02/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Radiation-induced liver damage (RILD) is a poorly understood and potentially devastating complication of hepatic radiation therapy (RT) for liver cancers. Previous work has demonstrated that hepatocyte transplantation (HT) can ameliorate RILD in rats. We hypothesized that RT inhibits generation of cellular ATP and suppresses hepatic regeneration. METHODS To study the metabolic changes that occur in RILD with and without HT, (31)P MRSI data were acquired in rats treated with partial hepatectomy (PH) alone, PH with hepatic irradiation (PHRT) or PHRT with HT (PHRT+HT). RESULTS Both [γ -ATP] and ATP/Pi (31)P MRSI signal ratio initially decreased and subsequently returned to baseline levels within 2 weeks after PH, which is consistent with other published data. Persistently reduced [γ-ATP] and ATP/Pi (31)P MRSI signal ratio were observed in rats up to 20 weeks after PHRT. However, progressive increases in [γ -ATP] were observed over time in the group of rats receiving PHRT+HT. Normal [γ -ATP] was observed 20 weeks after PHRT+HT (vs. PH alone), although, ATP/Pi levels did not return to normal after PHRT +HT. Ex vivo histological studies were performed to confirm liver repopulation with transplanted hepatocytes and the amelioration of pathologic changes of RILD. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that (31)P MRSI can be used to monitor the progress of RILD and its amelioration using transplanted hepatocytes to simultaneously restore metabolic function while replacing host hepatocytes damaged by RT.
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- Charles S. Landis
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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de Lanerolle NC, Hamid H, Kulas J, Pan JW, Czlapinski R, Rinaldi A, Ling G, Bandak FA, Hetherington HP. Concussive brain injury from explosive blast. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2014; 1:692-702. [PMID: 25493283 PMCID: PMC4241796 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.98] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2014] [Revised: 07/30/2014] [Accepted: 08/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Explosive blast mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is associated with a variety of symptoms including memory impairment and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Explosive shock waves can cause hippocampal injury in a large animal model. We recently reported a method for detecting brain injury in soldiers with explosive blast mTBI using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI). This method is applied in the study of veterans exposed to blast. METHODS The hippocampus of 25 veterans with explosive blast mTBI, 20 controls, and 12 subjects with PTSD but without exposure to explosive blast were studied using MRSI at 7 Tesla. Psychiatric and cognitive assessments were administered to characterize the neuropsychiatric deficits and compare with findings from MRSI. RESULTS Significant reductions in the ratio of N-acetyl aspartate to choline (NAA/Ch) and N-acetyl aspartate to creatine (NAA/Cr) (P < 0.05) were found in the anterior portions of the hippocampus with explosive blast mTBI in comparison to control subjects and were more pronounced in the right hippocampus, which was 15% smaller in volume (P < 0.05). Decreased NAA/Ch and NAA/Cr were not influenced by comorbidities - PTSD, depression, or anxiety. Subjects with PTSD without blast had lesser injury, which tended to be in the posterior hippocampus. Explosive blast mTBI subjects had a reduction in visual memory compared to PTSD without blast. INTERPRETATION The region of the hippocampus injured differentiates explosive blast mTBI from PTSD. MRSI is quite sensitive in detecting and localizing regions of neuronal injury from explosive blast associated with memory impairment.
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- Department of Neurology, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, 06520 ; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, 06520 ; Department of Neurology, West Haven VA West Haven, Connecticut, 06516
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, 06520 ; Department of Psychology, West Haven VA West Haven, Connecticut, 06516
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, 06520
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- Department of Neurology, West Haven VA West Haven, Connecticut, 06516
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- Department of Neurology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland, 20814
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- Department of Neurology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland, 20814 ; Integrated Services Group, Inc. Potomac, Maryland, 20854
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Öz G, Alger JR, Barker PB, Bartha R, Bizzi A, Boesch C, Bolan PJ, Brindle KM, Cudalbu C, Dinçer A, Dydak U, Emir UE, Frahm J, González RG, Gruber S, Gruetter R, Gupta RK, Heerschap A, Henning A, Hetherington HP, Howe FA, Hüppi PS, Hurd RE, Kantarci K, Klomp DWJ, Kreis R, Kruiskamp MJ, Leach MO, Lin AP, Luijten PR, Marjańska M, Maudsley AA, Meyerhoff DJ, Mountford CE, Nelson SJ, Pamir MN, Pan JW, Peet AC, Poptani H, Posse S, Pouwels PJW, Ratai EM, Ross BD, Scheenen TWJ, Schuster C, Smith ICP, Soher BJ, Tkáč I, Vigneron DB, Kauppinen RA. Clinical proton MR spectroscopy in central nervous system disorders. Radiology 2014; 270:658-79. [PMID: 24568703 PMCID: PMC4263653 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13130531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 411] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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A large body of published work shows that proton (hydrogen 1 [(1)H]) magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy has evolved from a research tool into a clinical neuroimaging modality. Herein, the authors present a summary of brain disorders in which MR spectroscopy has an impact on patient management, together with a critical consideration of common data acquisition and processing procedures. The article documents the impact of (1)H MR spectroscopy in the clinical evaluation of disorders of the central nervous system. The clinical usefulness of (1)H MR spectroscopy has been established for brain neoplasms, neonatal and pediatric disorders (hypoxia-ischemia, inherited metabolic diseases, and traumatic brain injury), demyelinating disorders, and infectious brain lesions. The growing list of disorders for which (1)H MR spectroscopy may contribute to patient management extends to neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, and stroke. To facilitate expanded clinical acceptance and standardization of MR spectroscopy methodology, guidelines are provided for data acquisition and analysis, quality assessment, and interpretation. Finally, the authors offer recommendations to expedite the use of robust MR spectroscopy methodology in the clinical setting, including incorporation of technical advances on clinical units.
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- Gülin Öz
- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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- From the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota,
2021 6th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (G.O.)
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Avdievich NI, Pan JW, Hetherington HP. Resonant inductive decoupling (RID) for transceiver arrays to compensate for both reactive and resistive components of the mutual impedance. NMR Biomed 2013; 26:1547-54. [PMID: 23775840 PMCID: PMC3800502 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Revised: 04/17/2013] [Accepted: 05/17/2013] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Transceiver surface coil arrays improve transmit performance (B1/√kW) and B1 homogeneity for head imaging up to 9.4 T. To further improve reception performance and parallel imaging, the number of array elements must be increased with a corresponding decrease in their size. With a large number of small interacting antennas, decoupling is one of the most challenging aspects in the design and construction of transceiver arrays. Previously described decoupling techniques using geometric overlap, inductive or capacitive decoupling have focused on the elimination of the reactance of the mutual impedance only, which can limit the obtainable decoupling to -10 dB as a result of residual mutual resistance. A novel resonant inductive decoupling (RID) method, which allows compensation for both reactive and resistive components of the mutual impedance between the adjacent surface coils, has been developed and verified experimentally. This method provides an easy way to adjust the decoupling remotely by changing the resonance frequency of the RID circuit through the adjustment of a variable capacitor. As an example, a single-row (1 × 16) 7-T transceiver head array of n = 16 small overlapped surface coils using RID decoupling between adjacent coils was built. In combination with overlapped coils, the RID technique achieved better than -24 dB of decoupling for all adjacent coils.
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Hetherington HP, Hamid H, Kulas J, Ling G, Bandak F, de Lanerolle NC, Pan JW. MRSI of the medial temporal lobe at 7 T in explosive blast mild traumatic brain injury. Magn Reson Med 2013; 71:1358-67. [PMID: 23918077 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Revised: 04/02/2013] [Accepted: 04/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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PURPOSE Up to 19% of veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have a history of mild traumatic brain injury with 70% associated with blast exposure. Tragically, 20-50% of this group reports persistent symptoms, including memory loss. Unfortunately, routine clinical imaging is typically normal, making diagnosis and clinical management difficult. The goal of this work was to develop methods to acquire hippocampal MRSI at 7 T and evaluate their sensitivity to detect injury in veterans with mild traumatic brain injury. METHODS At 7 T, hippocampal MRSI measurements are limited by: (1) poor B(0) homogeneity; (2) insufficient B(1)(+) strength and homogeneity; and (3) chemical shift dispersion artifacts. To overcofme these limitations we: (1) used third degree B(0) shimming; (2) an inductively decoupled transceiver array with radiofrequency shimming; and (3) a volume localized single slice sequence using radiofrequency shimming-based outer volume suppression. RESULTS In 20 controls and 25 veterans with mild traumatic brain injury due to blast exposure with memory impairment, hippocampal N-acetyl aspartate to choline (P < 0.001) and N-acetyl aspartate to creatine (P < 0.001) were decreased in comparison to control subjects. CONCLUSION With the appropriate methods robust spectroscopic imaging of the hippocampus can be carried out at 7 T. MRSI at 7 T can detect hippocampal injury in veterans with mild traumatic brain injury.
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- Hoby P Hetherington
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Pan JW, Duckrow RB, Gerrard J, Ong C, Hirsch LJ, Resor SR, Zhang Y, Petroff O, Spencer S, Hetherington HP, Spencer DD. 7T MR spectroscopic imaging in the localization of surgical epilepsy. Epilepsia 2013; 54:1668-78. [PMID: 23895497 DOI: 10.1111/epi.12322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSE With the success that surgical approaches can provide for localization-related epilepsy, accurate seizure localization remains important. Although magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy has had success in earlier studies in medial temporal lobe epilepsy, there have been fewer studies evaluating its use in a broader range of localization-related epilepsy. With improvements in signal-to-noise with ultra-high field MR, we report on the use of high resolution 7T MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) in 25 surgically treated patients studied over a 3.5-year period. METHODS Patients were included in this analysis if the region of MRSI study included the surgical resection region. Concordance between region of MRSI abnormalities and of surgical resection was classified into three groups (complete, partial, or no agreement) and outcome was dichotomized by International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) I-III and IV-VI groups. MRSI was performed with repetition time/echo time 1.5 s/40 msec in two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) encoding for robust detection of singlets N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), creatine (Cr), and choline with abnormalities in NAA/Cr determined with correction for tissue content of gray matter. KEY FINDINGS The concordance between MRSI-determined abnormality and surgical resection region was significantly related to outcome: Outcome was better if the resected tissue was metabolically abnormal. All 14 patients with complete resection of the region with the most severe metabolic abnormality had good outcome, including five requiring intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) analysis, whereas only 3/11 without complete resection of the most severe metabolic abnormality had good outcome (p < 0.001). SIGNIFICANCE This is consistent with the seizure-onset zone being characterized by metabolic dysfunction and suggests that high resolution MRSI can help define these regions for the purposes of outcome prediction.
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- Jullie W Pan
- Department of Neurology and Radiology, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
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Pan JW, Duckrow RB, Spencer DD, Avdievich NI, Hetherington HP. Selective homonuclear polarization transfer for spectroscopic imaging of GABA at 7T. Magn Reson Med 2012; 69:310-6. [PMID: 22505305 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2011] [Accepted: 03/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We develop and implement a selective homonuclear polarization transfer method for the detection of 3.0 ppm C-4 GABA resonance by spectroscopic imaging in the human brain at 7T. This single shot method is demonstrated with simulations and phantoms, which achieves comparable efficiency of detection to that of J-difference editing. The macromolecule resonance that commonly co-edits with GABA is suppressed at 7T through use of a narrow band preacquisition suppression pulse. This technique is implemented in humans with an eight channel transceiver array and high degree B(0) shimming to measure supplementary motor area and thalamic GABA in controls (n = 8) and epilepsy patients (n = 8 total). We find that the GABA/N-acetyl aspartate ratio in the thalamus of control volunteers, well controlled and poorly controlled epilepsy patients are 0.053 ± 0.012 (n = 8), 0.090 ± 0.012 (n = 2), and 0.038 ± 0.009 (n = 6), respectively.
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- J W Pan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Pan JW, Lo KM, Hetherington HP. Role of very high order and degree B0 shimming for spectroscopic imaging of the human brain at 7 tesla. Magn Reson Med 2011; 68:1007-17. [PMID: 22213108 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2011] [Revised: 11/21/2011] [Accepted: 11/23/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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With the advent of ultrahigh field systems (7 T), significant improvements in spectroscopic imaging (SI) studies of the human brain have been anticipated. These gains are dependent upon the achievable B0 homogeneity, both globally (σB0Global, over the entire regions of interest or slice) and locally (σB0Global, influencing the linewidth of individual SI voxels within the regions of interest). Typically the B0 homogeneity is adjusted using shim coils with spatial distributions modeled on spherical harmonics which can be characterized by a degree (radial dependence) and order (azimuthal symmetry). However, the role of very high order and degree shimming (e.g., 3rd and 4th degree) in MRSI studies has been controversial. Measurements of σB0Global and σB0Local were determined from B0 field maps of 64×64 resolution. In a 10 mm thick slice taken through the region of the subcortical nuclei, we find that in comparison to 1st-2nd degree shims, use of 1st-3rd and 1st-4th degree shims reduces σB0Global by 29% and 55%, respectively. Using a SI voxel size of ∼1cc with an estimate of σB0Local from 3×3×3 B0 map pixels in this subcortical region, the number of pixels with σB0Local of less than 5 Hz increased from 24 to 59% with 1st-3rd and 1st-4th over 1st-2nd degree shims, respectively.
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- Jullie W Pan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511-0820, USA.
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Short echo spectroscopy is commonly used to minimize signal modulation due to J-evolution of the cerebral amino acids. However, short echo acquisitions suffer from high sensitivity to macromolecules which make accurate baseline determination difficult. In this report, we describe implementation at 7 T of a double echo J-refocused coherence transfer sequence at echo time (TE) of 34 msec to minimize J-modulation of amino acids while also decreasing interfering macromolecule signals. Simulation of the pulse sequence at 7 T shows excellent resolution of glutamate, glutamine, and N-acetyl aspartate. B(1) sufficiency at 7 T for the double echo acquisition is achieved using a transceiver array with radiofrequency (RF) shimming. Using an alternate RF distribution to minimize receiver phase cancellation in the transceiver, accurate phase determination for the coherence transfer is achieved with rapid single scan calibration. This method is demonstrated in spectroscopic imaging mode with n = 5 healthy volunteers resulting in metabolite values consistent with literature and in a patient with epilepsy.
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- J W Pan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-0882, USA.
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Avdievich NI, Oh S, Hetherington HP, Collins CM. Improved homogeneity of the transmit field by simultaneous transmission with phased array and volume coil. J Magn Reson Imaging 2010; 32:476-81. [PMID: 20677280 PMCID: PMC2925674 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To improve the homogeneity of transmit volume coils at high magnetic fields (> or =4 T). Due to radiofrequency (RF) field/tissue interactions at high fields, 4 T to 8 T, the transmit profile from head-sized volume coils shows a distinctive pattern with relatively strong RF magnetic field B(1) in the center of the brain. MATERIALS AND METHODS In contrast to conventional volume coils at high field strengths, surface coil phased arrays can provide increased RF field strength peripherally. In theory, simultaneous transmission from these two devices could produce a more homogeneous transmission field. To minimize interactions between the phased array and the volume coil, counter rotating current (CRC) surface coils consisting of two parallel rings carrying opposite currents were used for the phased array. RESULTS Numerical simulations and experimental data demonstrate that substantial improvements in transmit field homogeneity can be obtained. CONCLUSION We have demonstrated the feasibility of using simultaneous transmission with human head-sized volume coils and CRC phased arrays to improve homogeneity of the transmit RF B(1) field for high-field MRI systems.
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Spectroscopic imaging of the human head at short echo times (<or=15 ms) typically requires suppression of signals from extracerebral tissues. However, at 7 T, decreasing efficiency in B1+ generation (hertz/watt) and increasing spectral bandwidth result in dramatic increases in power deposition and increased chemical shift registration artifacts for conventional gradient-based in-plane localization. In this work, we describe a novel method using radiofrequency shimming and an eight-element transceiver array to generate a B1+ field distribution that excites a ring about the periphery of the head and leaves central brain regions largely unaffected. We have used this novel B1+ distribution to provide in-plane outer volume suppression (>98% suppression of extracerebral lipids) without the use of gradients. This novel B1+ distribution is used in conjunction with a double inversion recovery method to provide suppression of extracerebral resonances with T1s greater than 400 ms, while having negligible effect on metabolite ratios of cerebral resonances with T1s>1000 ms. Despite the use of two adiabatic pulses, the high efficiency of the ring distribution allows radiofrequency power deposition to be limited to 3-4 W for a pulse repetition time of 1.5 sec. The short echo time enabled the acquisition of images of the human brain, displaying glutamate, glutamine, macromolecules, and other major cerebral metabolites.
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- Hoby P Hetherington
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Zimmerman ME, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Lipton ML, Baigi K, Lipton RB. Hippocampal correlates of pain in healthy elderly adults: a pilot study. Neurology 2009; 73:1567-70. [PMID: 19901248 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181c0d454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Few neuroimaging investigations of pain in elderly adults have focused on the hippocampus, a brain structure involved in nociceptive processing that is also subject to involution associated with dementing disorders. The goal of this pilot study was to examine MRI- and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)-derived hippocampal correlates of pain in older adults. METHODS A subset of 20 nondemented older adults was drawn from the Einstein Aging Study, a community-based sample from the Bronx, NY. Pain was measured on 3 time scales: 1) acute pain right now (pain severity); 2) pain over the past 4 weeks (Short Form-36 Bodily Pain); 3) chronic pain over the past 3 months (Total Pain Index). Hippocampal data included volume data normalized to midsagittal area and N-acetylaspartate to creatine ratios (NAA/Cr). RESULTS Smaller hippocampal volume was associated with higher ratings on the Short Form-36 Bodily Pain (r(s) = 0.52, p = 0.02) and a nonsignificant trend was noted for higher ratings of acute pain severity (r(s) = -0.44, p = 0.06). Lower levels of hippocampal NAA/Cr were associated with higher acute pain severity (r(s) = -0.45, p = 0.05). Individuals with chronic pain had a nonsignificant trend for smaller hippocampal volumes (t = 2.00, p = 0.06) and lower levels of hippocampal NAA/Cr (t = 1.71, p = 0.10). CONCLUSIONS Older adults who report more severe acute or chronic pain have smaller hippocampal volumes and lower levels of hippocampal N-acetylaspartate/creatine, a marker of neuronal integrity. Future studies should consider the role of the hippocampus and other brain structures in the development and experience of pain in healthy elderly and individuals with Alzheimer disease.
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- M E Zimmerman
- Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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Avdievich NI, Hetherington HP. High-field head radiofrequency volume coils using transverse electromagnetic (TEM) and phased array technologies. NMR Biomed 2009; 22:960-974. [PMID: 18574792 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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This article describes technological advances in quadrature transverse electromagnetic (TEM) volume coils and phased arrays reported recently from our laboratory developed for MRI and MRS imaging of the human brain. The first part of this work presents a new method for tuning TEM volume coils based on measurements of the radiofrequency current distribution in the coil elements. This technique facilitates bench adjustment of the coils' homogeneity and is particularly important for tuning double-tuned TEM volume coils. We have also used this method to optimize other TEM configurations such as a quadrature TEM half-volume coil and a split TEM coil. TEM half-volume coils provide greater sensitivity over localized regions than conventional full-volume coils, and the split TEM coil provides greater patient access and ease of use. The second part of this work describes the development of single-tuned and double-tuned transmit TEM volume coils in combination with phased arrays. A variety of different techniques for active detuning of single-tuned and double-tuned TEM volume coils are presented along with the development of phased arrays and transmission line preamplifier decoupling. The final section describes the use of counter rotating current (CRC) surface coils in phased arrays. Because of the intrinsic isolation of CRC coils from transmit volume coils, CRC arrays can be used simultaneously with volume coils for both reception and transmission. Near the center of the human head where both the phased array and the volume coil produce similar sensitivities, simultaneous reception enhances the signal-to-noise ratio. Conversely, simultaneous transmission can be used to boost the transmit field in peripheral brain regions from the volume coil to provide a more homogeneous transmit field.
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Avdievich NI, Pan JW, Baehring JM, Spencer DD, Hetherington HP. Short echo spectroscopic imaging of the human brain at 7T using transceiver arrays. Magn Reson Med 2009; 62:17-25. [PMID: 19365851 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Recent advances in magnet technology have enabled the construction of ultrahigh-field magnets (7T and higher) that can accommodate the human head and body. Despite the intrinsic advantages of performing spectroscopic imaging at 7T, increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and spectral resolution, few studies have been reported to date. This limitation is largely due to increased power deposition and B(1) inhomogeneity. To overcome these limitations, we used an 8-channel transceiver array with a short TE (15 ms) spectroscopic imaging sequence. Utilizing phase and amplitude mapping and optimization schemes, the 8-element transceiver array provided both improved efficiency (17% less power for equivalent peak B(1)) and homogeneity (SD(B(1)) = +/-10% versus +/-22%) in comparison to a transverse electromagnetic (TEM) volume coil. To minimize the echo time to measure J-modulating compounds such as glutamate, we developed a short TE sequence utilizing a single-slice selective excitation pulse followed by a broadband semiselective refocusing pulse. Extracerebral lipid resonances were suppressed with an inversion recovery pulse and delay. The short TE sequence enabled visualization of a variety of resonances, including glutamate, in both a control subject and a patient with a Grade II oligodendroglioma.
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- N I Avdievich
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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Zimmerman ME, Lipton RB, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Verghese J. MRI- and MRS-derived hippocampal correlates of quantitative locomotor function in older adults. Brain Res 2009; 1291:73-81. [PMID: 19631621 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2008] [Revised: 07/08/2009] [Accepted: 07/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gait measures have been shown to predict cognitive decline and dementia in older adults. Investigation of the neurobiology associated with locomotor function is needed to elucidate this relationship with cognitive abilities. This study aimed to examine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI; hippocampal volume)- and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS; N-acetylaspartate to creatine (NAA/Cr) ratios)-derived hippocampal correlates of quantitative gait function (swing time (seconds), stride length (cm), and stride length variability (standard deviation)) in a subset of 48 nondemented older adults (24 males; mean age=81 years) drawn from the Einstein Aging Study, a community-based sample of individuals over the age of 70 residing in Bronx, New York. Linear regression analyses controlling for age were used to examine hippocampal volume and neurochemistry as predictors of gait function. We found that stride length was associated with hippocampal volume (beta=0.36, p=0.03; overall model R(2)=0.33, p=0.01), but not hippocampal neurochemistry (beta=0.09, p=0.48). Stride length variability was more strongly associated with hippocampal NAA/Cr (beta=-0.38, p=0.01; overall model R(2)=0.14, p=0.04) than hippocampal volume (beta=-0.33, p=0.08). Gait swing time was not significantly related to any neuroimaging measure. These relationships remained significant after accounting for memory and clinical gait impairments. These findings suggest that nondemented older adults exhibit increased stride length variability that is associated with lower levels of hippocampal neuronal metabolism, but not hippocampal volume. Conversely, decreased stride length is associated with smaller hippocampal volumes, but not hippocampal neurochemistry. Distinct neurobiological hippocampal substrates may support decreased stride length and increased stride length variability in older adults.
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- Molly E Zimmerman
- Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1165 Morris Park Avenue, Room 343, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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Zimmerman ME, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Lipton ML, Baigi KH, Lipton RB. IC‐P‐143: Hippocampal correlates of pain in healthy elderly adults: A pilot study. Alzheimers Dement 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2009.05.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Zimmerman ME, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Lipton ML, Baigi KH, Lipton RB. P1‐143: Hippocampal correlates of pain in healthy elderly adults: a pilot study. Alzheimers Dement 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2009.04.148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To improve the performance of 7T head coils over the rostral head regions. Due to radiofrequency (RF) field/tissue interactions, the RF magnetic field profile produced by 7T volume head coils is very inhomogeneous, with enhanced sensitivity near the center of the human brain and substantially reduced in the periphery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two head-sized quadrature volume coils of similar diameters but substantially different lengths (17 and 10 cm) were constructed and tested using a 7T Varian Inova system. RESULTS Experimental data demonstrated that by using a shorter volume head-sized coil or simply by partially moving a head out of the coil, coil efficiency near the top of a head can be improved by 20%. The homogeneity also improved, largely resulting from an increase in peripheral B(1) values. This resulted in 10%-20% variation in axial slices located near the top of a head. CONCLUSION We have demonstrated a less deeply positioned head or substantially shorter volume coil can significantly improve coil performance and homogeneity for the rostral head at ultrahigh magnetic fields (7T and above). For studies that target superior brain regions, this coil arrangement can be highly effective.
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- Nikolai I Avdievich
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Pan JW, Cavus I, Kim J, Hetherington HP, Spencer DD. Hippocampal extracellular GABA correlates with metabolism in human epilepsy. Metab Brain Dis 2008; 23:457-68. [PMID: 18807158 PMCID: PMC3578212 DOI: 10.1007/s11011-008-9106-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2008] [Accepted: 08/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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As the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in human brain, GABA is an important modulator of hyperexcitability in epilepsy patients. Given the high energetic cost of neurotransmission and synaptic activity, GABA concentrations may be hypothesized to correlate with metabolic function. We studied human epilepsy patients undergoing intracranial EEG monitoring for seizure localization to examine microdialysis measures of extracellular GABA (ecGABA), pre-operative MR spectroscopic measures of neuronal mitochondrial function (NAA/Cr), and wherever possible, neuropathology and hippocampal volumetry. Two groups undergoing intracranial monitoring for seizure localization were studied: surgically treated hippocampal epilepsy (MTLE) and neocortical (non-hippocampal seizure onset) epilepsy. All data are hippocampal and thus these groups allow comparisons between the epileptogenic and non-epileptogenic regions. ecGABA was measured using in vivo microdialysis performed during intracranial monitoring. Pre-operative in vivo MR spectroscopic imaging was performed to measure the ratio of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) to creatine. Standard methods for neuropathology and hippocampal volumetry were used. In the neocortical group, increased ecGABA correlated with greater NAA/Cr (R = +0.70, p < 0.015, n = 12) while in the MTLE group, increased ecGABA linked with decreased NAA/Cr (R = -0.94, p < 0.001, n = 8). In MTLE, ecGABA (increased) and NAA/Cr (decreased) correlated with increased glial cell numbers (R = +0.71, p < 0.01, n = 12, R = -0.76 p < 0.03 respectively). No relationship was seen between ecGABA and hippocampal volumes in either group. In epilepsy, ecGABA increases occur across a range of metabolic function. Outside the seizure focus, ecGABA and NAA/Cr increase together; in contrast, within the seizure focus, ecGABA increases with declining mitochondrial function.
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- J W Pan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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Zimmerman ME, Lipton RB, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Verghese J. P2‐103: MRI‐ and MRS‐derived hippocampal correlates of quantitative gait dysfunction in older adults. Alzheimers Dement 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2008.05.1177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE Because of the large and continuous energetic requirements of brain function, neurometabolic dysfunction is a key pathophysiologic aspect of the epileptic brain. Additionally, neurometabolic dysfunction has many self-propagating features that are typical of epileptogenic processes, that is, where each occurrence makes the likelihood of further mitochondrial and energetic injury more probable. Thus abnormal neurometabolism may be not only a chronic accompaniment of the epileptic brain, but also a direct contributor to epileptogenesis. METHODS We examine the evidence for neurometabolic dysfunction in epilepsy, integrating human studies of metabolic imaging, electrophysiology, microdialysis, as well as intracranial EEG and neuropathology. RESULTS As an approach of noninvasive functional imaging, quantitative magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) measured abnormalities of mitochondrial and energetic dysfunction (via 1H or 31P spectroscopy) are related to several pathophysiologic indices of epileptic dysfunction. With patients undergoing hippocampal resection, intraoperative 13C-glucose turnover studies show a profound decrease in neurotransmitter (glutamate-glutamine) cycling relative to oxidation in the sclerotic hippocampus. Increased extracellular glutamate (which has long been associated with increased seizure likelihood) is significantly linked with declining energetics as measured by 31P MR, as well as with increased EEG measures of Teager energy, further arguing for a direct role of glutamate with hyperexcitability. DISCUSSION Given the important contribution that metabolic performance makes toward excitability in brain, it is not surprising that numerous aspects of mitochondrial and energetic state link significantly with electrophysiologic and microdialysis measures in human epilepsy. This may be of particular relevance with the self-propagating nature of mitochondrial injury, but may also help define the conditions for which interventions may be developed.
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- Jullie W Pan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Cavus I, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Abi-Saab W, Zaveri HP, Vives KP, Krystal JH, Spencer SS, Spencer DD. Decreased hippocampal volume on MRI is associated with increased extracellular glutamate in epilepsy patients. Epilepsia 2008; 49:1358-66. [PMID: 18410365 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01603.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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PURPOSE Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is associated with smaller hippocampal volume and with elevated extracellular (EC) glutamate levels. We investigated the relationship between the hippocampal volume and glutamate in refractory TLE patients. METHODS We used quantitative MRI volumetrics to measure the hippocampal volume and zero-flow microdialysis to measure the interictal glutamate, glutamine, and GABA levels in the epileptogenic hippocampus of 17 patients with medication-resistant epilepsy undergoing intracranial EEG evaluation. The relationships between hippocampal volume, neurochemical levels, and relevant clinical factors were examined. RESULTS Increased EC glutamate in the epileptogenic hippocampus was significantly related to smaller ipsilateral (R(2)= 0.75, p < 0.0001), but not contralateral hippocampal volume when controlled for glutamine and GABA levels, and for clinical factors known to influence hippocampal volume. Glutamate in the atrophic hippocampus was significantly higher (p = 0.008, n = 9), with the threshold for hippocampal atrophy estimated as 5 microM. GABA and glutamine levels in the atrophic and nonatrophic hippocampus were comparable. Decreased hippocampal volume was related to higher seizure frequency (p = 0.008), but not to disease duration or febrile seizure history. None of these clinical factors were related to the neurochemical levels. CONCLUSIONS We provide evidence for a significant association between increased EC glutamate and decreased ipsilateral epileptogenic hippocampal volume in TLE. Future work will be needed to determine whether the increase in glutamate has a causal relationship with hippocampal atrophy, or whether another, yet unknown factor results in both. This work has implications for the understanding and treatment of epilepsy as well as other neurodegenerative disorders associated with hippocampal atrophy.
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- Idil Cavus
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
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Zimmerman ME, Pan JW, Hetherington HP, Katz MJ, Verghese J, Buschke H, Derby CA, Lipton RB. Hippocampal neurochemistry, neuromorphometry, and verbal memory in nondemented older adults. Neurology 2008; 70:1594-600. [PMID: 18367703 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000306314.77311.be] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Characterization of the behavioral correlates of neuromorphometry and neurochemistry in older adults has important implications for an improved understanding of the aging process. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that a measure of hippocampal neuronal metabolism was associated with verbal memory in nondemented older adults after controlling for hippocampal volume. METHODS 4-T MRI, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H MRS), and neuropsychological assessment were conducted in 48 older adults (23 women; mean age 81 years). Average hippocampal N-acetyl aspartate/creatine ratios (NAA/Cr) and hippocampal volumes were obtained. Neuropsychological evaluation included tests of verbal memory (Buschke and Grober Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test-Immediate Recall [FCSRT-IR], Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised Logical Memory subtest) and attention and executive function (Trail Making Test Parts A and B). RESULTS Linear regression analysis indicated that after adjusting for age, hippocampal NAA/Cr was a significant predictor of FCSRT-IR performance (beta = 0.38, p = 0.01, R (2) = 0.21). Hippocampal volume was also a significant predictor of FCSRT-IR performance after adjusting for age and midsagittal area (beta = 0.47, p = 0.01, R (2) = 0.24). In a combined model, hippocampal NAA/Cr (beta = 0.33, p = 0.03) and volume (beta = 0.35, p = 0.03) were independent predictors of FCSRT-IR performance, accounting for 30% of the variance in memory. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that nondemented older adults with smaller hippocampal volumes and lower levels of hippocampal N-acetyl aspartate/creatine ratio metabolites perform more poorly on a test of verbal memory. The integrity of both the structure and metabolism of the hippocampus may underlie verbal memory function in nondemented elderly.
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- M E Zimmerman
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, 1165 Morris Park Ave., Room 343, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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Hetherington HP, Kuzniecky RI, Vives K, Devinsky O, Pacia S, Luciano D, Vasquez B, Haut S, Spencer DD, Pan JW. A subcortical network of dysfunction in TLE measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Neurology 2008; 69:2256-65. [PMID: 18071146 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000286945.21270.6d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The goal of this work was to evaluate the relationship between neuronal injury/loss in the hippocampus, thalamus, and putamen in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients using (1)H magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. METHODS (1)H spectroscopic images from the hippocampus and thalamus of controls and patients with TLE were acquired at 4 T. The spectroscopic imaging data were reconstructed using an automated voxel-shifting method based on anatomic landmarks providing four, six, and three loci for the hippocampus, thalamus, and putamen, respectively. For correlation analysis, the hippocampal and striatal loci were averaged to provide single estimates of the entire structure, whereas the thalamus was divided into two regions, an anterior and posterior measure, using the average of three loci each. RESULTS The ratio of N-acetyl aspartate to creatine (NAA/Cr), a measure of neuronal injury/loss, was significantly reduced in both the ipsilateral and contralateral hippocampi and thalami. NAA/Cr in the ipsilateral hippocampus was significantly correlated with the ipsilateral and contralateral anterior and posterior thalami, putamen, and contralateral hippocampus. In control subjects, the hippocampi were only correlated with each other. CONCLUSIONS The data demonstrate that there is significant neuronal injury/loss in both the ipsilateral and contralateral thalami in temporal lobe epilepsy patients, with greater impairment in the anterior portions of the ipsilateral thalamus. The degree of injury/loss in the ipsilateral and contralateral thalamus and putamen is directly correlated with that of the ipsilateral hippocampus. This is consistent with the hypothesis that the impairment and damage associated with recurrent seizures as measured by N-acetyl aspartate originating in the hippocampus results in injury and impairment in other subcortical structures.
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- H P Hetherington
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University, PO Box 208062, New Haven, CT 06520-8062, USA.
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Gomes WA, Lado FA, de Lanerolle NC, Takahashi K, Pan C, Hetherington HP. Spectroscopic imaging of the pilocarpine model of human epilepsy suggests that early NAA reduction predicts epilepsy. Magn Reson Med 2007; 58:230-5. [PMID: 17654595 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Reduced hippocampal N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) is commonly observed in patients with advanced, chronic temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). It is unclear, however, whether an NAA deficit is also present during the clinically quiescent latent period that characterizes early TLE. This question has important implications for the use of MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) in the early identification of patients at risk for TLE. To determine whether NAA is diminished during the latent period, we obtained high-resolution (1)H spectroscopic imaging during the latent period of the rat pilocarpine model of human TLE. We used actively detuneable surface reception and volume transmission coils to enhance sensitivity and a semiautomated voxel shifting method to accurately position voxels within the hippocampi. During the latent period, 2 and 7 d following pilocarpine treatment, hippocampal NAA was significantly reduced by 27.5 +/- 6.9% (P < 0.001) and 17.3 +/- 6.9% (P < 0.001) at 2 and 7 d, respectively. Quantitative estimates of neuronal loss at 7 d (2.3 +/- 7.7% reduction; P = 0.58, not significant) demonstrate that the NAA deficit is not due to neuron loss and therefore likely represents metabolic impairment of hippocampal neurons during the latent phase. Therefore, spectroscopic imaging provides an early marker for metabolic dysfunction in this model of TLE.
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- W A Gomes
- Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10467, USA.
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Avdievich NI, Bradshaw K, Lee JH, Kuznetsov AM, Hetherington HP. 4T split TEM volume head and knee coils for improved sensitivity and patient accessibility. J Magn Reson 2007; 187:234-41. [PMID: 17533142 PMCID: PMC2749647 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2006] [Revised: 05/03/2007] [Accepted: 05/08/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Split RF coils offer improved patient access by eliminating the need for the coil to be slid over the region of interest. For unshielded birdcage coils, the presence of end ring currents necessitates a direct electrical connection between two halves of the coil. For high-field (>3T) shielded birdcage coils, both the shield and the coil must be split and reliably connected electrically. This problem can be circumvented by the use of split TEM volume coils. Since the elements of a TEM coil are coupled inductively, no direct electrical connection between the halves is necessary. In this work we demonstrate that the effects of splitting the shield for head and knee TEMs can be compensated for, and performance retained. For the knee, the improved access allowed the coil diameter to be reduced, enhancing the sensitivity by 15-20%.
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- Nikolai I Avdievich
- Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
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Avdievich NI, Hetherington HP. 4 T Actively detuneable double-tuned 1H/31P head volume coil and four-channel 31P phased array for human brain spectroscopy. J Magn Reson 2007; 186:341-6. [PMID: 17379554 PMCID: PMC2677064 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2006] [Revised: 02/09/2007] [Accepted: 03/01/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Typically 31P in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies are limited by SNR considerations. Although phased arrays can improve the SNR; to date 31P phased arrays for high-field systems have not been combined with 31P volume transmit coils. Additionally, to provide anatomical reference for the 31P studies, without removal of the coil or patient from the magnet, double-tuning (31P/1H) of the volume coil is required. In this work we describe a series of methods for active detuning and decoupling enabling use of phased arrays with double-tuned volume coils. To demonstrate these principles we have built and characterized an actively detuneable 31P/1H TEM volume transmit/four-channel 31P phased array for 4 T magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of the human brain. The coil can be used either in volume-transmit/array-receive mode or in TEM transmit/receive mode with the array detuned. Threefold SNR improvement was obtained at the periphery of the brain using the phased array as compared to the volume coil.
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- N I Avdievich
- Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
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PURPOSE To assess the feasibility of 1H spectroscopic imaging (SI) in the mouse brain at 9.4 T, and investigate regional variations in brain metabolites. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 21 SI studies were performed in CD-1 mice to evaluate the basal ganglia (N=5), hippocampus and thalamus (N=11), and cerebellum (N=5). We adjusted the B0 homogeneity for each slice using a fully automated shim calculation method based on the B0 map, which we measured using a multislice gradient-echo sequence with multiple phase evolution delays. The SI employed a modified localization by adiabatic selective refocusing (LASER) sequence with TE/TR of 50/2000 msec, 24x24 encodes over a field of view (FOV) of 24 mmx24 mm, 1 microL voxel resolution, and two averages, for a total acquisition time of 38 minutes. RESULTS Sufficient shimming was achieved and high-quality spectra were consistently obtained in each slice. N-acetyl aspartate (NAA)/creatine (Cr) ratios in the basal ganglia and thalamus (0.86+/-0.07, and 0.87+/-0.07, respectively) were significantly higher than those in the hippocampus and cerebellum (0.76+/-0.03 and 0.67+/-0.07), which were also significantly different from each other. CONCLUSION 1H SI of the mouse brain is highly reproducible and allows differences in regional metabolite ratios to be easily visualized.
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- Naoyuki Miyasaka
- Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
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Avdievich NI, Bradshaw K, Kuznetsov AM, Hetherington HP. High-field actively detuneable transverse electromagnetic (TEM) coil with low-bias voltage for high-power RF transmission. Magn Reson Med 2007; 57:1190-5. [PMID: 17534919 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The design and construction of a 4T (170 MHz) transverse electromagnetic (TEM) actively detuneable quadrature head coil is described. Conventional schemes for active detuning require high negative bias voltages (>300 V) to prevent leakage of RF pulses with amplitudes of 1-2 kW. To extend the power handling capacity and avoid the use of high DC bias voltages, we developed an alternate method of detuning the volume coil. In this method the PIN diodes in the detuning circuits are shorted when the RF volume coil is tuned, and negatively biased with -12 V when the coil is detuned. To preserve the high Q(U)/Q(L) ratio of the TEM coil, we modified the method of Nabetani and Watkins (Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Kyoto, Japan, 2004, abstract 1574) by utilizing a high-impedance (approximately 200 Omega), lumped-element, quarter-wavelength transformer. A Q(U) of 500 was achieved for the detuneable TEM, such that incorporation of the detuning network had minimal effect (<1 dB) on the performance of the coil in vivo.
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- Nikolai I Avdievich
- Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
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Although a variety of methods have been proposed to provide automated adjustment of shim homogeneity, these methods typically fail or require large numbers of iterations in vivo when applied to regions with poor homogeneity, such as the temporal lobe. These limitations are largely due to 1) the limited accuracy of single evolution time measurements when full B0 mapping studies are used, and 2) inaccuracies arising from projection-based methods when the projections pass through regions where the inhomogeneity exceeds the order of the fitted parameters. To overcome these limitations we developed a novel B0 mapping method using multiple evolution times with a novel unwrapping scheme in combination with a user-defined ROI selection tool. We used these methods at 4T on 10 control subjects to obtain high-resolution spectroscopic images of glutamate from the bilateral hippocampi.
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- Hoby P Hetherington
- Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
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Douglas RM, Miyasaka N, Takahashi K, Latuszek-Barrantes A, Haddad GG, Hetherington HP. Chronic intermittent but not constant hypoxia decreases NAA/Cr ratios in neonatal mouse hippocampus and thalamus. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 292:R1254-9. [PMID: 17082353 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00404.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Chronic constant hypoxia (CCH) and chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) are known to have deleterious effects on the central nervous system. Because of the difference in the pattern of hypoxic exposure, it is possible that the pathological outcome would vary. The N-acetyl aspartate/creatine (NAA/Cr) ratio is a reliable marker of neuronal integrity, and this can be noninvasively measured by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. P2 CD1 mouse pups with their dams were exposed to either CCH, where the Fi(O(2)) was maintained at 11% continuously or to CIH, where the Fi(O(2)) was varied between 21 and 11% every 4 min. P30 mice exposed to intermittent hypoxia for 4 wk demonstrated a significant decrease in the NAA/Cr ratio in the hippocampus and thalamus, which was reversed by a subsequent exposure to 4 wk of normoxia. Meanwhile, mice exposed to 4 wk of constant hypoxia did not demonstrate any differences in their NAA/Cr ratios from controls in these brain regions. These results indicate that an intermittent pattern of hypoxic exposure may have a more adverse effect on neuronal function and integrity than a continuous one. The reversal of NAA/Cr levels to baseline during the return to normoxia indicates that therapeutic strategies targeted at alleviating the intermittent hypoxic stress in diseases, such as obstructive sleep apnea, have the potential for inducing significant neurocognitive recovery in these patients.
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- Robert M Douglas
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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