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Whole-Brain 3D Activation and Functional Connectivity Mapping in Mice using Transcranial Functional Ultrasound Imaging

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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 168, Pages -

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JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/62267

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Funding

  1. European Research Council (ERC) [339244-FUSIMAGINE]
  2. National Agency for Research funding 'Pinch' [ANR-18-CE37-005]
  3. Inserm Research Technology Accelerator in Biomedical Ultrasound
  4. ElfUS technical core of the IPNP
  5. Inserm U1266
  6. European research program FUSIMICE of the Human Brain Project
  7. EMBO Short-Term Fellowship [8439]

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Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging is a novel brain imaging technique that allows high-sensitivity measurement of cerebral blood volume and 3D mapping of brain activation with unmatched spatio-temporal resolution. This technique is fully compatible with awake and behaving animal experiments, providing a simple and reliable protocol for whole-brain fUS imaging in both anesthetized and awake mice.
Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging is a novel brain imaging modality that relies on the high-sensitivity measure of the cerebral blood volume achieved by ultrafast doppler angiography. As brain perfusion is strongly linked to local neuronal activity, this technique allows the whole-brain 3D mapping of task-induced regional activation as well as resting-state functional connectivity, non-invasively, with unmatched spatio-temporal resolution and operational simplicity. In comparison with fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), a main advantage of fUS imaging consists in enabling a complete compatibility with awake and behaving animal experiments. Moreover, fMRI brain mapping in mice, the most used preclinical model in Neuroscience, remains technically challenging due to the small size of the brain and the difficulty to maintain stable physiological conditions. Here we present a simple, reliable and robust protocol for whole-brain fUS imaging in anesthetized and awake mice using an off-theshelf commercial fUS system with a motorized linear transducer, yielding significant cortical activation following sensory stimulation as well as reproducible 3D functional connectivity pattern for network identification.

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