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Abstract #0050

Can resting state fMRI be used to map cerebrovascular reactivity?

Peiying Liu 1 , Babu G Welch 2 , Darlene King 2 , Yang Li 1 , Marco Pinho 1,3 , and Hanzhang Lu 1

1 Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States, 2 Neurological Surgery Clinic, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States, 3 Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Texas, United States

Hypercapnia inhalation is commonly used to map cerebrovascular reactivity(CVR) in clinical research studies. However, gas inhalation may not be feasible for acute patients (e.g., acute stoke, traumatic brain injury). In this work, we aim to explore an alternative approach without gas inhalation. We hypothesize that global BOLD signal can serve as a reliable regressor for CVR estimation from the resting state BOLD data. We showed that the resting CVR generated by this method is reproducible, and of similar physiological origin as CO2-inhalation-derived CVR. This method might be a reliable surrogate of CVR mapping when hypercapnia inhalation is not feasible.

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