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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 20, Issue 8, Pages 1225-1236Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1097/00004647-200008000-00008
Keywords
BOLD; cerebral blood oxygen saturation; magnetic resonance imaging
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- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS037312, R01 NS082561, NS37312] Funding Source: Medline
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A quantitative estimate of cerebral blood oxygen saturation is of critical importance in the investigation of cerebrovascular disease because of the fact that it could potentially provide information on tissue viability in vivo. In the current study, a multi-echo gradient and spin echo magnetic resonance imaging sequence was used to acquire images from eight normal volunteer subjects. All images were acquired on a Siemens 1.5T Symphony whole-body scanner (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany). A theoretical signal model, which describes the signal dephasing phenomena in the presence of deoxyhemoglobin, was used for postprocessing of the acquired images and obtaining a quantitative measurement of cerebral blood oxygen saturation in vivo. With a legion-of-interest analysis, a mean cerebral blood oxygen saturation of 58.4% +/- 1.8% was obtained in the brain parenchyma from all volunteers. It is in excellent agreement with the known cerebral blood oxygen saturation under normal physiologic conditions in humans. Although further studies are needed to overcome some of the confounding factors affecting the estimates of cerebral blood oxygen saturation: these preliminary results are encouraging and should open a new avenue for the noninvasive investigation of cerebral oxygen metabolism under different pathophysiologic conditions using a magnetic resonance imaging approach.
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