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Abstract #3055

Reliability of Resting Brain Networks in BOLD and ASL fMRI across Time and Platforms

Kay Jann 1 , Dylan Gee 2 , Emily Kilroy 3 , Simon Schwab 4 , Tyrone Cannon 5 , and Danny JJ Wang 1

1 Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, 2 Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, 3 Division of Occupational Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, 4 Department of Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Psychiatry / University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 5 Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

The purpose of this study was to investigate the similarity and reliability of resting brain networks between BOLD and ASL based rs-fMRI. A 2x2x2 factorial design was applied where 10 subjects underwent repeated BOLD and ASL rs-fMRI scans on two occasions on two separate MRI scanners respectively. While BOLD-networks showed excellent test-retest-reliability across sessions and scanners in their spatial pattern, ASL-networks showed reduced yet still adequate repeatability as well as highly reproducible network CBF measurements. The combination of ASL and -BOLD rs-fMRI provides a powerful tool to fully characterize the spatiotemporal and quantitative properties of resting brain networks.

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