Multishot Partial-k-Space EPI for High-Resolution fMRI Demonstrated in a Rat Whisker Barrel Stimulation Model at 3T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1215-1222

  Lu, Hanbing ^a   Mazaheri, Yousef ^b   Zhang, Rongyan ^a   Jesmanowicz, Andrzej ^a   Hyde, James S ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD fMRI; Multishot; Partial k space; Phase map; Whisker barrel stimulation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IRON OXIDES;

BOLD FMRI; K SPACE; MULTI-SHOT; PHASE MAPS; WHISKER BARREL STIMULATION;

RATS;

MONOCRYSTALLINE IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0345600048     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10655     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Ogawa S, Menon RS, Tank DW, Kim S-G, Merkle H, Ellermann JM, Ugurbil K. Functional brain mapping by blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast magnetic resonance imaging. Biophys J 1993;64:800-812.
2. Boxerman JL, Bandettini PA, Kwong KK, Baker JR, Davis TJ, Rosen BR, Weisskoff RM. The intravascular contribution to fMRI signal changes: Monte Carlo modeling and diffusion-weighted studies in vivo. Magn Reson Med 1995;34:4-10.
3. Kennan RP, Zhong J, Gore JC. Intravascular susceptibility contrast mechanisms in tissues. Magn Reson Med 1994;31:9-21.
4. Fujita N. Extravascular contribution of blood oxygenation level-dependent signal changes: a numerical analysis based on a vascular network model. Magn Reson Med 2001;46:723-734.
5. Turner R, Jezzard P, Wen H, Kwong KK, Le Bihan D, Zeffiro T, Balaban RS. Functional mapping of human visual cortex at 4 and 1.5 tesla using deoxygenation contrast EPI. Magn Reson Med 1993;29:277-279.
6. Gati JS, Menon RS, Ugurbil K, Rutt BK. Experimental determination of the BOLD field strength dependence in vessels and tissue. Magn Reson Med 1997;38:296-302.
7. Lee SP, Silva AC, Ugurbil K, Kim SG. Diffusion-weighted spin-echo fMRI at 9.4 T: microvascular/tissue contribution to BOLD signal changes. Magn Reson Med 1999;42:919-928.
8. 2* and functional contrast to noise ratio. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, San Francisco, 1994. p 434.
9. Bandettini PA. Magnetic resonance imaging of human brain activation using endogenous susceptibility contrast. Ph.D. dissertation, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 1995.
10. Yacoub E, Shmuel A, Pfeuffer J, Moortele PF, Adriany G, Andersen P, Vaughan JT, Merkle H, Ugurbil K, Hu X. Imaging brain function in humans at 7 Tesla. Magn Reson Med 2001;45:588-594.
11. Farzaneh F, Riederer SJ, Pelc NJ. Analysis of T2 limitations and off-resonance effects on spatial resolution and artifacts in echo-planar imaging. Magn Reson Med 1990;14:123-139.
12. Hyde JS, Biswal BB, Jesmanowicz A. High-resolution fMRI using multislice partial k-space GR-EPI with cubic voxels. Magn Reson Med 2001;46:114-125.
13. Jesmanowicz A, Bandettini PA, Hyde JS. Single-shot half k-space high-resolution gradient-recalled EPI for fMRI at 3 Tesla. Magn Reson Med 1998;40:754-762.
14. Haacke EM, Brown RW, Thompson MR, Venkatesan R. Magnetic resonance imaging: physical principles and sequence design. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.
15. Margosian P, Schmitt F, Purdy D. Faster MR imaging with half the data. Health Care Instrum 1986;1:195-197.
16. Purdy DE. A Fourier transform method of obtaining high resolution phase map for half-Fourier imaging. In: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of SMRM, San Francisco, 1988. p 968.
17. McKinnon GC. Ultrafast interleaved gradient-echo-planar imaging on a standard scanner. Magn Reson Med 1993;30:609-616.
18. Butts K, Riederer SI, Ehman RL, Thompson RM, Jack CR. Interleaved echo planar imaging on a standard MRI system. Magn Reson Med 1994;31:67-72.
19. Tan SG, Song AW, Wong EC, Hyde JS, Li SJ. High resolution fMRI with interleaved EPI. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Nice, France, 1995. p 796.
20. Kim SG, Hu X, Adriany G, Uĝurbil K. Fast interleaved echo-planar imaging with navigator: high resolution anatomical and functional image at 4 Tesla. Magn Reson Med 1996;35:895-902.
21. Hu X, Kim S-G. Reduction of signal fluctuation in functional MRI using navigator echoes. Magn Reson Med 1994;31:495-503.
22. Ehman RL, Felmlee JP. Adaptive technique for high-definition MR imaging of moving structures. Radiology 1989;173:255-263.
23. Bruder H, Fischer H, Reinfelder H-E, Schmitt F. Image reconstruction for echo planar imaging with nonequidistant k-space sampling. Magn Reson Med 1992;23:311-323.
24. Wong EC. Shim insensitive phase correction for EPI using a two echo reference scan. In: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of SMRM, Berlin, Germany, 1992. p 4514.
25. Jesmanowicz A, Wong EC, Hyde JS. Phase correction for EPI using internal reference lines. In: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of SMRM, New York, 1993. p 1239.
26. Hu X, Le TH. Artifact reduction in EPI with phase-encoded reference scan. Magn Reson Med 1996;36:166-171.
27. 0-fluctuation-induced temporal variation in EPI images series due to the disturbance of the steady-state free precession. Magn Reson Med 2000;44:758-765.
28. Lu H, Jesmanowicz A, Mazaheri Y, Hyde JS. Reference scan navigator-aided half k-space interleaved EPI for high resolution fMRI at 3 T. In: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, 2002. p 2372.
29. Nguyen TD, Wang Y, Watts R, Mitchell I. k-Space weighted least-squares algorithm for accurate and fast motion extraction from magnetic resonance navigator echoes. Magn Reson Med 2001;46:1037-1040.
30. Wong EC, Boskamp E, Hyde JS. A volume optimized quadrature elliptical endcap birdcage brain coil. In: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of SMRM, Berlin, Germany, 1992. p 4015.
31. Hyder F, Behar KL, Martin MA, Shulman RG. Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of the rat brain during fore-paw stimulation. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1994;14:649-655.
32. Yang X, Hyder F, Shulman RG. Activation of single whisker barrel in rat brain localized by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1996;93:475-478.
33. Lu H, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS. A technique for Hessian matrix formation for gradient coil optimization. In: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu. 2002. p 813.
34. Gerrits RJ, Stein EA, Greene AS. Laser-Doppler flowmetry utilizing a thinner skull cranial window preparation and automated stimulation. Brain Res Brain Res Protoc 1998;3:14-21.
35. Paxino G, Watson C. The rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates. San Diego: Academic Press; 1998.
36. Mandeville JB, Marota JJA, Kosofsky BE, Keltner JR, Weissleder R, Rosen BR, Weisskoff RM. Dynamic functional imaging of relative cerebral blood volume during rat forepaw stimulation. Magn Reson Med 1998;39:615-624.
37. Ogawa S, Lee TM, Stepnoski R, Chen W, Zhu XH, Ugurbil K. An approach to probe some neural systems interaction by functional MRI at neural time scale down to milliseconds. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000;97:11026-11031.
38. Cox RW, Hyde JS. Software tools for analysis and visualization of fMRI data. NMR Biomed 1997;10:171-178.
39. Bandettini PA, Jesmanowicz A, Wong EC, Hyde JS. Processing strategies for time-course data sets in functional MRI of the human brain. Magn Reson Med 1993;30:161-173.
40. Welker C, Woolsey TA. Structure of layer IV in the somatosensory neocortex of the rat: description and comparison with mouse. J Comp Neurol 1974;158:437-454.
41. Boxerman JL, Hamberg LM, Rosen BR, Weisskoff RM. MR contrast due to intravascular magnetic susceptibility perturbations. Magn Reson Med 1995;34:555-566.
42. Logothetis NK, Merkle H, Augath M, Trinath T, Ugurbil K. Ultra high-resolution fMRI in monkeys with implanted RF coils. Neuron 2002;35:227-242.
43. Harel N, Zhao F, Wang P, Kim S-G. Cortical layer specificity of BOLD and CBV fMRI signals at ultra-high resolution. In: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, 2002. p 9.