期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 24, 期 3, 页码 667-677出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.09.013
关键词
BOLD fMRI; binary m-sequence; hemodynamic response; vascular dispersion
资金
- Intramural NIH HHS [Z01 NS002989-08] Funding Source: Medline
Using computer simulations and high-resolution fMRI experiments in humans (n = 6) and rats (n = 8) we investigated to what extent BOLD fMRI temporal resolution is limited by dispersion in the venous vasculature. For this purpose, time-to-peak (TTP) and full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the BOLD impulse response (IR) function were determined. In fMRI experiments, a binary in-sequence probe method was used to obtain high-sensitivity model-free single-pixel estimates of IR. Simulations of posteapillary flow suggested that flow-related dispersion leads to a TTP and FWHM increase, which can amount to several seconds in larger pial veins. fMRI experiments showed substantial spatial variation in IR timing within human visual cortex, together with a correlation between TTP and FWHM. Averaged across the activated regions and across subjects, TTP and FWHM were 4.51 +/- 0.52 and 4.04 +/- 0.42 s, respectively. In regions of interest (ROI) weighted toward the larger venous structures, TTP and FWHM increased to 5.07 +/- 0.64 and 4.32 +/- 0.48 s, respectively. In rat somatosensory cortex, TTP and FWHM were substantially shorter than in humans (2.73 +/- 0.60 and 2.28 +/- 0.63 s, respectively). These results are consistent with a substantial macrovascular dispersive contribution to BOLD IR in humans, and furthermore suggest that neurovascular coupling is a relatively rapid process, with a resolution below 2.3 s FWHM. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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