Mapping cerebrovascular reactivity using concurrent fMRI and near infrared spectroscopy

Yunjie Tong; Peter R Bergethon; Blaise deB. Frederick

doi:10.1117/12.875028

17 February 2011 Mapping cerebrovascular reactivity using concurrent fMRI and near infrared spectroscopy

Yunjie Tong, Peter R Bergethon, Blaise deB. Frederick

Proceedings Volume 7896, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue IX; 789605 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875028
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) reflects the compensatory dilatory capacity of cerebral vasculature to a dilatory stimulus and is an important indicator of brain vascular reserve. fMRI has been proven to be an effective imaging technique to obtain the CVR map when the subjects perform CO2 inhalation or the breath holding task (BH). However, the traditional data analysis inaccurately models the BOLD using a boxcar function with fixed time delay. We propose a novel way to process the fMRI data obtained during a blocked BH by using the simultaneously collected near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) data as regressor¹. In this concurrent NIRS and fMRI study, 6 healthy subjects performed a blocked BH (5 breath holds with 20s durations intermitted by 40s of regular breathing). A NIRS probe of two sources and two detectors separated by 3 cm was placed on the right side of prefrontal area of the subjects. The time course of changes in oxy-hemoglobin (Δ[HbO]) was calculated from NIRS data and shifted in time by various amounts, and resampled to the fMRI acquisition rate. Each shifted time course was used as regressor in FEAT (the analysis tool in FSL). The resulting z-statistic maps were concatenated in time and the maximal value was taken along the time for all the voxels to generate a 3-D CVR map. The new method produces more accurate and thorough CVR maps; moreover, it enables us to produce a comparable baseline cerebral vascular map if applied to resting state (RS) data.

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Yunjie Tong, Peter R Bergethon, and Blaise deB. Frederick "Mapping cerebrovascular reactivity using concurrent fMRI and near infrared spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 7896, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue IX, 789605 (17 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875028

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Near infrared spectroscopy

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Remote sensing

Brain

Brain mapping

Blood

Carbon dioxide

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