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Abstract #3412

Concurrent 1D line-scan fMRI at multiple cortical locations with a novel non-contiguous, non-coplanar multiline acquisition in humans at 7 Tesla

Sangcheon Choi1,2, Mukund Balasubramanian2,3, Xin Yu1,2, and Jonathan R. Polimeni1,2,4
1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, 2Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 3Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, 4Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: fMRI Acquisition, fMRI (task based), line-scanning fMRI method

Motivation: Spin-echo-based line-scanning employing inner-volume excitation has been proposed for line-scan fMRI to avoid artifacts stemming from imperfect saturation RF pulses.

Goal(s): To measure non-contiguous and non-coplanar BOLD signals at multiple cerebral cortical areas.

Approach: We developed multi-line T2’- and T2-weighted Gradient-echo sampling of a spin-echo (GESSE) line-scanning fMRI method.

Results: This novel approach enables the detection of fMRI activation at different visual cortical regions, showing pure T2 and TE-dependent BOLD responses. It provides a proof-of-concept to further examine interactions of high-resolution fMRI signals at multiple cortical locations along feedforward and feedback pathways.

Impact: A non-coplanar multi-line gradient-echo sampling of spin-echo (GESSE) line-scanning method was proposed as a novel approach for distinguishing macro- and micro-vascular sensitive fMRI signals by simultaneouslyacquiring T2’- and T2-weighted BOLD fMRI signals at multiple cortical locations.

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