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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 1211-1222Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2010.226
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BOLD; CBV; CMRO(2); cortical layer; stripe of Gennari; visual cortex
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- NIH [EB003324, EB003375, NS44589]
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Determination of compartment-specific cerebral blood volume (CBV) changes is important for understanding neurovascular physiology and quantifying blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In isoflurane-anesthetized cats, we measured the spatiotemporal responses of arterial CBV (CBV(a)) and total CBV (CBV(t)) induced by a 40-second visual stimulation, using magnetization transfer (MT)-varied BOLD and contrast-agent fMRI techniques at 9.4 T. To determine the venous CBV (CBV(v)) change, we calculated the difference between CBV(t) and CBV(a) changes. The dynamic response of CBV(a) was an order of magnitude faster than that of CBV(v), while the magnitude of change under steady-state conditions was similar between the two. Following stimulation offset, Delta CBV(a) showed small poststimulus undershoots, while Delta CBV(v) slowly returned to baseline. The largest CBV(a) and CBV(t) response occurred after 10 seconds of simulation in cortical layer 4, which we identified as the stripe of Gennari by T(1)-weighted MRI. The CBVv response, however, was not specific across the cortical layers during the entire stimulation period. Our data indicate that rapid, more-specific arterial vasodilation is followed by slow, less-specific venous dilation. Our finding implies that the contribution of CBV(v) changes to BOLD signals is significant for long, but not short, stimulation periods. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism(2011) 31, 1211-1222; doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2010.226; published online 22 December 2010
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