Journal
NEUROIMAGE
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 301-313Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.051
Keywords
Resting-state functional connectivity (fcMRI); Resting-state BOLD fMRI (rs-fMRI); Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR); End-tidal CO2 (PETCO2); Vascular tension; Amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF)
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) [418443]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [286286]
- Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery
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Although widely used in resting-state fMRI (fMRI) functional connectivity measurement (fcMRI), the BOLD signal is only an indirect measure of neuronal activity, and is inherently modulated by both neuronal activity and vascular physiology. For instance, cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) varies widely across individuals irrespective of neuronal function, but the implications for fcMRI are currently unknown. This knowledge gap compromises our ability to correctly interpret fcMRI measurements. In this work, we investigate the relationship between CVR and resting fcMRI measurements in healthy young adults, in both the motor and the executive-control networks. We modulate CVR within each individual by subtly increasing and decreasing resting vascular tension through baseline end-tidal CO2 (PETCO2), and measure fcMRI during these hypercapnic, hypocapnic and normocapnic states. Furthermore, we assess the association between CVR and fcMRI within and across individuals. Within individuals, resting PETCO2 is found to significantly influence both CVR and resting fcMRI values. In addition, we find resting fcMRI to be significantly and positively associated with CVR across the group in both networks. This relationship is potentially mediated by concomitant alterations in BOLD signal fluctuation amplitude. This work clearly demonstrates and quantifies a major vascular modulator of resting fcMRI, one that is also subject and regional dependent. We suggest that individualized correction for CVR effects in fcMRI measurements is essential for fcMRI studies of healthy brains, and can be even more important in studying diseased brains. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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