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Basal cerebral blood volume during the poststimulation undershoot in BOLD MRI of the human brain.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20736964     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
One of the characteristics of the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) response to functional challenges of the brain is the poststimulation undershoot, which has been suggested to originate from a delayed recovery of either cerebral blood volume (CBV) or cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen to baseline. Using bolus-tracking MRI in humans, we recently showed that relative CBV rapidly normalizes after the end of stimulation. As this observation contradicts at least part of the blood-pool contrast agent studies performed in animals, we reinvestigated the CBV contribution by dynamic T1-weighted three-dimensional MRI (8 seconds temporal resolution) and Vasovist at 3 T (12 subjects). Initially, we determined the time constants of individual BOLD responses. After injection of Vasovist, CBV-related T1-weighted signal changes revealed a signal increase during visual stimulation (1.7% ± 0.4%), but no change relative to baseline in the poststimulation phase (0.2% ± 0.3%). This finding renders the specific nature of the contrast agent unlikely to be responsible for the discrepancy between human and animal studies. With the assumption of normalized cerebral blood flow after stimulus cessation, a normalized CBV lends support to the idea that the BOLD MRI undershoot reflects a prolonged elevation of oxidative metabolism.
Authors:
Peter Dechent; Gunther Schütze; Gunther Helms; Klaus Dietmar Merboldt; Jens Frahm
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-08-25
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism     Volume:  31     ISSN:  1559-7016     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab.     Publication Date:  2011 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-01-04     Completed Date:  2011-02-03     Revised Date:  2012-01-02    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8112566     Medline TA:  J Cereb Blood Flow Metab     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  82-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
MR-Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany. pdechen@gwdg.de
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Blood Volume / physiology*
Cerebrovascular Circulation / physiology*
Contrast Media
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Female
Gadolinium
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Organometallic Compounds
Oxygen / blood*
Photic Stimulation
Young Adult
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Contrast Media; 0/Organometallic Compounds; 0/gadofosveset trisodium; 7440-54-2/Gadolinium; 7782-44-7/Oxygen

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