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Abstract #3400

Quantitative BOLD with Variational Bayesian inference: model comparisons with Monte Carlo simulations and in an elderly cohort

Linh N. N. Le1, Gregory J. Wheeler1, Nicholas P. Blockley2, and Audrey P. Fan1,3
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States, 2School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 3Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Quantitative Imaging, OxygenationThis study uses Monte Carlo simulations to understand the behavior of quantitative BOLD in different physiological conditions, using a Variational Bayesian inference framework with prior information and data from Asymmetric Spin Echo (ASE) scans. The performance of the three models at 7 SNR levels (from 5 to 500) showed that one-compartment and two-compartment models estimated oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) more accurately than linear model across a full range of deoxygenated blood volume (DBV) (p<0.05 using two-way ANOVA with pairwise comparisons). In vivo data showed that Bayesian inference approach effectively enables smoother and quantitatively different parameter maps of OEF and DBV.

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