Keywords: Quantitative Imaging, Vascular, cerebrovascular reactivity, Gradient Echo BOLD, Spin Echo BOLD, ASL
Motivation: Gradient-echo (GE) BOLD-fMRI has been used with vasodilation to measure the cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR). However, the GE-BOLD signal is weighted by cerebral blood volume (CBV) in large veins. Spin-Echo (SE) BOLD fMRI is less sensitive to large veins and may deliver estimates closer to the physiological CVR.
Goal(s): To compare GE-BOLD, SE-BOLD, and CBF based CVR measurements across subjects and across space.
Approach: Concurrent GE/SE BOLD-ASL acquisitions were performed during breath-holding (BH). We computed the CVR maps for the three signals.
Results: The grey matter (GM) SE-BOLD CVR correlated more highly than GE-BOLD CVR with the ASL-derived GM CBF-CVR, across subjects and space.
Impact: SE BOLD-fMRI may deliver a marker of CVR that resembles the physiological (CBF) CVR more closely than CVR based on GE BOLD, with the advantage of high signal-to-noise ratio compared to ASL.
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