Improved functional mapping of the human amygdala using a standard functional magnetic resonance imaging sequence with simple modifications

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-53

  Morawetz, Carmen ^a   Holz, Petra ^a   Lange, Claudia ^a   Baudewig, Jürgen ^a   Weniger, Godehard ^a   Irle, Eva ^a   Dechent, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ekman faces; Emotion; fMRI; Gradient echo; Medial temporal lobe; Spatial filter; Susceptibility artifacts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37349115497     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Calder A.J., Lawrence A.D., and Young A.W. Neuropsychology of fear and loathing. Nat Rev Neurosci 2 (2001) 352-363
2. LeDoux J.E. Emotion circuits in the brain. Annu Rev Neurosci 23 (2000) 155-184
3. Phan K.L., Wager T., Taylor S.F., and Liberzon I. Functional neuroanatomy of emotion: a meta-analysis of emotion activation studies in PET and fMRI. Neuroimage 16 (2002) 331-348
4. Phelps E.A., and LeDoux J.E. Contributions of the amygdala to emotion processing: from animal models to human behavior. Neuron 48 (2005) 175-187
5. LaBar K.S., and Cabeza R. Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory. Nat Rev Neurosci 7 (2006) 54-64
6. Wager T.D., Phan K.L., Liberzon I., and Taylor S.F. Valence, gender, and lateralization of functional brain anatomy in emotion: a meta-analysis of findings from neuroimaging. Neuroimage 19 (2003) 513-531
7. Phan K.L., Wager T.D., Taylor S.F., and Liberzon I. Functional neuroimaging studies of human emotions. CNS Spectr 9 (2004) 258-266
8. Ogawa S., Lee T.M., Kay A.R., and Tank D.W. Brain magnetic resonance imaging with contrast dependent on blood oxygenation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 87 (1990) 9868-9872
9. Ogawa S., Lee T.M., Nayak A.S., and Glynn P. Oxygenation-sensitive contrast in magnetic resonance image of rodent brain at high magnetic fields. Magn Reson Med 14 (1990) 68-78
10. Bandettini P.A., Wong E.C., Hinks R.S., Tikofsky R.S., and Hyde J.S. Time course EPI of human brain function during task activation. Magn Reson Med 25 (1992) 390-397
11. Blamire A.M., Ogawa S., Ugurbil K., Rothman D., McCarthy G., Ellermann J.M., et al. Dynamic mapping of the human visual cortex by high-speed magnetic resonance imaging. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89 (1992) 11069-11073
12. Frahm J., Bruhn H., Merboldt K.D., and Hanicke W. Dynamic MR imaging of human brain oxygenation during rest and photic stimulation. J Magn Reson Imaging 2 (1992) 501-505
13. Kwong K.K., Belliveau J.W., Chesler D.A., Goldberg I.E., Weisskoff R.M., Poncelet B.P., et al. Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of human brain activity during primary sensory stimulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89 (1992) 5675-5679
14. Hennig J., Speck O., Koch M.A., and Weiller C. Functional magnetic resonance imaging: a review of methodological aspects and clinical applications. J Magn Reson Imaging 18 (2003) 1-15
15. Gati J.S., Menon R.S., Ugurbil K., and Rutt B.K. Experimental determination of the BOLD field strength dependence in vessels and tissue. Magn Reson Med 38 (1997) 296-302
16. Kruger G., Kastrup A., and Glover G.H. Neuroimaging at 1.5 T and 3.0 T: comparison of oxygenation-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging. Magn Reson Med 45 (2001) 595-604
17. Czervionke L.F., Daniels D.L., Wehrli F.W., Mark L.P., Hendrix L.E., Strandt J.A., et al. Magnetic susceptibility artifacts in gradient-recalled echo MR imaging. Am J Neuroradiol 9 (1988) 1149-1155
18. Ojemann J.G., Akbudak E., Snyder A.Z., McKinstry R.C., Raichle M.E., and Conturo T.E. Anatomic localization and quantitative analysis of gradient refocused echo-planar fMRI susceptibility artifacts. Neuroimage 6 (1997) 156-167
19. Lipschutz B., Friston K.J., Ashburner J., Turner R., and Price C.J. Assessing study-specific regional variations in fMRI signal. Neuroimage 13 (2001) 392-398
20. Stenger V.A., Boada F.E., and Noll D.C. Three-dimensional tailored RF pulses for the reduction of susceptibility artifacts in T(*)(2)-weighted functional MRI. Magn Reson Med 44 (2000) 525-531
21. Wang L., McCarthy G., Song A.W., and Labar K.S. Amygdala activation to sad pictures during high-field (4 Tesla) functional magnetic resonance imaging. Emotion 5 (2005) 12-22
22. Merboldt K.D., Fransson P., Bruhn H., and Frahm J. Functional MRI of the human amygdala?. Neuroimage 14 (2001) 253-257
23. Robinson S., Windischberger C., Rauscher A., and Moser E. Optimized 3 T EPI of the amygdalae. Neuroimage 22 (2004) 203-210
24. Birbaumer N., Veit R., Lotze M., Erb M., Hermann C., Grodd W., et al. Deficient fear conditioning in psychopathy: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 62 (2005) 799-805
25. Critchley H.D., Rotshtein P., Nagai Y., O'Doherty J., Mathias C.J., and Dolan R.J. Activity in the human brain predicting differential heart rate responses to emotional facial expressions. Neuroimage 24 (2005) 751-762
26. Chen N., and Wyrwicz A.M. Removal of intravoxel dephasing artifact in gradient-echo images using a field-map based RF refocusing technique. Magn Reson Med 42 (1999) 807-812
27. Cho Z.H., Ro Y.M., Park S.T., and Chung S.C. NMR functional imaging using a tailored RF gradient echo sequence: a true susceptibility measurement technique. Magn Reson Med 35 (1996) 1-5
28. Deichmann R., Josephs O., Hutton C., Corfield D.R., and Turner R. Compensation of susceptibility-induced BOLD sensitivity losses in echo-planar fMRI imaging. Neuroimage 15 (2002) 120-135
29. Frahm J., Merboldt K.D., and Hanicke W. Direct FLASH MR imaging of magnetic field inhomogeneities by gradient compensation. Magn Reson Med 6 (1988) 474-480
30. Frahm J., Merboldt K.D., and Hanicke W. The influence of the slice-selection gradient on functional MRI of human brain activation. J Magn Reson B 103 (1994) 91-93
31. Glover G.H. 3D z-shim method for reduction of susceptibility effects in BOLD fMRI. Magn Reson Med 42 (1999) 290-299
32. Merboldt K.D., Finsterbusch J., and Frahm J. Reducing inhomogeneity artifacts in functional MRI of human brain activation - thin sections vs gradient compensation. J Magn Reson 145 (2000) 184-191
33. Stocker T., Kellermann T., Schneider F., Habel U., Amunts K., Pieperhoff P., et al. Dependence of amygdala activation on echo time: results from olfactory fMRI experiments. Neuroimage 30 (2006) 151-159
34. Glover G.H., and Law C.S. Spiral-in/out BOLD fMRI for increased SNR and reduced susceptibility artifacts. Magn Reson Med 46 (2001) 515-522
35. Preston A.R., Thomason M.E., Ochsner K.N., Cooper J.C., and Glover G.H. Comparison of spiral-in/out and spiral-out BOLD fMRI at 1.5 and 3 T. Neuroimage 21 (2004) 291-301
36. Frahm J., Merboldt K.D., and Hanicke W. Functional MRI of human brain activation at high spatial resolution. Magn Reson Med 29 (1993) 139-144
37. 2* dephasing in gradient field-echo imaging. Radiology 170 (1989) 457-462
38. Chen N.K., Dickey C.C., Yoo S.S., Guttmann C.R., and Panych L.P. Selection of voxel size and slice orientation for fMRI in the presence of susceptibility field gradients: application to imaging of the amygdala. Neuroimage 19 (2003) 817-825
39. Deichmann R., Gottfried J.A., Hutton C., and Turner R. Optimized EPI for fMRI studies of the orbitofrontal cortex. Neuroimage 19 (2003) 430-441
40. Bestmann S., Baudewig J., Siebner H.R., Rothwell J.C., and Frahm J. Functional MRI of the immediate impact of transcranial magnetic stimulation on cortical and subcortical motor circuits. Eur J Neurosci 19 (2004) 1950-1962
41. Bestmann S., Baudewig J., Siebner H.R., Rothwell J.C., and Frahm J. BOLD MRI responses to repetitive TMS over human dorsal premotor cortex. Neuroimage 28 (2005) 22-29
42. Bestmann S., Oliviero A., Voss M., Dechent P., Lopez-Dolado E., Driver J., et al. Cortical correlates of TMS-induced phantom hand movements revealed with concurrent TMS-fMRI. Neuropsychologia 44 (2006) 2959-2971
43. Henning S., Merboldt K.D., and Frahm J. Simultaneous recordings of visual evoked potentials and BOLD MRI activations in response to visual motion processing. NMR Biomed 18 (2005) 543-552
44. S. Henning, K.D. Merboldt, J. Frahm, Task- and EEG-correlated analyses of BOLD MRI responses to eyes opening and closing. Brain Res 2006;1073-1074:359-64.
45. Lang N., Baudewig J., Kallenberg K., Antal A., Happe S., Dechent P., et al. Transient prosopagnosia after ischemic stroke. Neurology 66 (2006) 916
46. Lutcke H., Merboldt K.D., and Frahm J. The cost of parallel imaging in functional MRI of the human brain. Magn Reson Imaging 24 (2006) 1-5
47. Sack A.T., Kohler A., Bestmann S., Linden D.E., Dechent P., Goebel R., et al. Imaging the brain activity changes underlying impaired visuospatial judgments: simultaneous fMRI, TMS, and behavioral studies. Cereb Cortex (2007) [Electronic publication ahead of print]
48. Seseke S., Baudewig J., Kallenberg K., Ringert R.H., Seseke F., and Dechent P. Voluntary pelvic floor muscle control - an fMRI study. Neuroimage 31 (2006) 1399-1407
49. Zaehle T., Jordan K., Wustenberg T., Baudewig J., Dechent P., and Mast F.W. The neural basis of the egocentric and allocentric spatial frame of reference. Brain Res 1137 (2007) 92-103
50. Fera F., Yongbi M.N., vanGelderen P., Frank J.A., Mattay V.S., and Duyn J.H. EPI-BOLD fMRI of human motor cortex at 1.5 T and 3.0 T: sensitivity dependence on echo time and acquisition bandwidth. J Magn Reson Imaging 19 (2004) 19-26
51. Zou P., Hutchins S.B., Dutkiewicz R.M., Li C.S., and Ogg R.J. Effects of EPI readout bandwidth on measured activation map and BOLD response in fMRI experiments. Neuroimage 27 (2005) 15-25
52. Ekman P., and Friesen W. Pictures of facial affect (1976), Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA
53. Genovese C.R., Lazar N.A., and Nichols T. Thresholding of statistical maps in functional neuroimaging using the false discovery rate. Neuroimage 15 (2002) 870-878
54. Pruessner J.C., Li L.M., Serles W., Pruessner M., Collins D.L., Kabani N., et al. Volumetry of hippocampus and amygdala with high-resolution MRI and three-dimensional analysis software: minimizing the discrepancies between laboratories. Cereb Cortex 10 (2000) 433-442
55. Gorno-Tempini M.L., Hutton C., Josephs O., Deichmann R., Price C., and Turner R. Echo time dependence of BOLD contrast and susceptibility artifacts. Neuroimage 15 (2002) 136-142
56. Wansapura J.P., Holland S.K., Dunn R.S., and Ball Jr. W.S. NMR relaxation times in the human brain at 3.0 Tesla. J Magn Reson Imaging 9 (1999) 531-538
57. Weiskopf N., Hutton C., Josephs O., and Deichmann R. Optimal EPI parameters for reduction of susceptibility-induced BOLD sensitivity losses: a whole-brain analysis at 3 T and 1.5 T. Neuroimage 33 (2006) 493-504
58. Baas D., Aleman A., and Kahn R.S. Lateralization of amygdala activation: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging studies. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 45 (2004) 96-103