Regional placental blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) changes with gestational age in normally developing pregnancies using long duration R2* mapping in utero

Manjiri Dighe; Yun Jung Kim; Sharmishtaa Seshamani; Ania I. Blazejewska; Susan Mckown; Jason Caucutt; Christopher Gatenby; Colin Studholme

doi:10.1117/12.2217137

29 March 2016 Regional placental blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) changes with gestational age in normally developing pregnancies using long duration R2* mapping in utero

Manjiri Dighe, Yun Jung Kim, Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Ania I. Blazejewska, Susan Mckown, Jason Caucutt, Christopher Gatenby, Colin Studholme

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Proceedings Volume 9788, Medical Imaging 2016: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 97881H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217137
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

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The aim of this study was to examine the use of R2* mapping in maternal and fetal sub-regions of the placenta with the aim of providing a reference for blood oxygenation levels during normative development. There have been a number of MR relaxation studies of placental tissues in-utero, but none have reported R2* value changes with age, or examined differences in sub-regions of the placenta. Here specialized long-duration Multi-frame R2* imaging was used to create a stable estimate for R2* values in different placental regions in healthy pregnant volunteers not imaged for clinical reasons. 27 subjects were recruited and scanned up to 3 times during their pregnancy. A multi-slice dual echo EPI based BOLD acquisition was employed and repeated between 90 and 150 times over 3 to 5 minutes to provide a high accuracy estimate of the R2* signal level. Acquisitions were also repeated in 13 cases within a visit to evaluate reproducibility of the method in a given subject. Experimental results showed R2* measurements were highly repeatable within a visit with standard deviation of (0.76). Plots of all visits against gestational age indicated clear correlations showing decreases in R2* with age. This increase was consistent was also consistent over time in multiple visits of the same volunteer during their pregnancy. Maternal and fetal regional changes with gestational age followed the same trend with increase in R2* over the gestational age.

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Manjiri Dighe, Yun Jung Kim, Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Ania I. Blazejewska, Susan Mckown, Jason Caucutt, Christopher Gatenby, and Colin Studholme "Regional placental blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) changes with gestational age in normally developing pregnancies using long duration R2* mapping in utero", Proc. SPIE 9788, Medical Imaging 2016: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 97881H (29 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217137

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Fetus

Blood

Magnetic resonance imaging

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging

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