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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
卷 31, 期 10, 页码 1999-2008出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2011.57
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BOLD contrast; brain imaging; cerebral hemodynamics; functional MRI (fMRI); neurovascular coupling
Recent animal studies at high field have shown that blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) contrast can be specific to the laminar vascular architecture of the cortex, by differences in its temporal dynamics in reference to cortical depth. In this study, we characterize the temporal dynamics of the hemodynamic response (HDR) across cortical depth in the human primary motor and visual cortex, at 7 T and using very short stimuli and with high spatial and temporal resolution. We find that the shape and temporal dynamics of the HDR changed in an orderly manner across cortical depth. Compared with the pial vasculature, HDRs in deeper gray matter are significantly faster in onset time (by similar to 0.5 second) and peak time (similar to 2 seconds), and are narrower (by similar to 1 second) and with smaller amplitude, in line with the known vascular organization across cortical depth and the transit of deoxygenated blood through the vasculature. The width of the HDR in deeper gray matter was as short as 2.1 seconds, indicating that neurovascular coupling takes place at a shorter timescale than previously reported in the human brain. These findings open the possibility to probe layer-specific hemodynamics and neurovascular coupling mechanisms in human gray matter. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (2011) 31, 1999-2008; doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2011.57; published online 20 April 2011
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