Synopsis: Combination of blood– oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD fMRI) and electrical hindpaw stimulation has been used as a standard model to study the somatosensory pathway and brain rehabilitation in rats. In the present study, we examined the feasibility of performing BOLD fMRI experiments on rat to investigate the activity of the basal ganglia (BG)-cortex ...

Purpose : Renal blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) MRI has been used in the evaluation of renal oxygenation. We tried to provide the normal R2* value of the human kidney with 3.0 T, and evaluated the differences in R2* values according to gender and location. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four healthy volunteers underwent BOLD MRI at 3.0 T. Multi gradient echo-echo planar imaging sequence with...

Minzenberg et al. (Reports, 12 December 2008, p. 1700) and Schmidt et al. (Reports, 24 April 2009, p. 516) reported blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) responses in the human locus coeruleus (LC). Here, we show that these LC responses do not correspond to the anatomical location of the LC and present cautionary data concerning the quality of BOLD signals measured from the LC using standard func...

background: chronic daily headache (cdh) has gained little attention in functional neuro-imaging. when no structural abnormality is found in cdh, defining functional correlates between activated brain regions during headache bouts may provide unique insights towards understanding the pathophysiology of this type of headache. methods: we recruited four cdh cases for comprehensive assessments, in...

BACKGROUND It is recognized that the interplay between myocardial ischemia, perfusion, and oxygenation in the setting of coronary artery disease (CAD) is complex and that myocardial oxygenation and perfusion may become dissociated. Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has the potential to noninvasively measure myocardial oxygenation, whereas positron emiss...

Introduction: Recent studies have shown that regional myocardial oxygenation changes due to coronary artery stenosis may be detected with 2D steady-state free precession (SSFP) blood-oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) imaging [1]. One potential limitation of the 2D SSFP BOLD approach is the disruption of steady-state myocardial signal due to through-plane cardiac motion in the presence of slice-sele...

Neural activity in the brain is accompanied by changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) and blood oxygenation that are detectable with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques. In this paper, recent mathematical models of this hemodynamic response are reviewed and integrated. Models are described for: (1) the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal as a function of changes in...

Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterised by reduced myocardial tissue oxygenation (assessed using blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) CMR imaging) during stress, as well as reduced myocardial perfusion reserve (MPRI) due to coronary microvascular dysfunction. In HCM gene carriers without the HCM phenotype, it has been suggested that only oxygenation is impaired. [1] It rema...

Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is used to treat a number of ailments. Improved understanding of how HBO affects neuronal activity, cerebral blood flow (CBF) and blood-oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) changes could shed light on the role of oxygen in neurovascular coupling and help guide HBO treatments. The goal of this study was to test two hypotheses: i) activation-induced CBF fMRI response...

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) measurements of energy metabolism (i.e. cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption, CMR(O2)), blood circulation (i.e. cerebral blood flow, CBF, and volume, CBV), and functional MRI (fMRI) signal over a wide range of neuronal activity and pharmacological treatments are used to interpret the neurophysiologic basis of blood ox...