PMID- 14725926 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040514 LR - 20190906 IS - 0730-725X (Print) IS - 0730-725X (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 10 DP - 2003 Dec TI - Functional MRI using intravascular contrast agents: detrending of the relative cerebrovascular (rCBV) time course. PG - 1191-200 AB - In pharmacological fMRI experiments in animal models, blood pool contrast agents may be used to map cerebral blood volume change as a surrogate for neural activation. When the background signal drift due to contrast agent washout is non-negligible over the duration of the signal changes of interest, time-course detrending is essential for accurate interpretation of the experiment. Detrending approaches based on estimation of the background signal from a baseline period of the time course prior to pharmacological (or functional) challenge were evaluated with the aim of identifying a robust method of estimating the contrast agent washout contribution to the background signal drift. For fMRI studies in the rat, it was found that a constrained fit of a mono-exponential washout model was more accurate than a constant background approximation and unconstrained fits for experiments investigating the functional response to rapid pharmacological challenges such as cocaine and amphetamine. Moreover, the constrained fitting approach allows shorter baseline periods than unconstrained extrapolation, reducing the required duration of the experiment. FAU - Schwarz, Adam J AU - Schwarz AJ AD - Department of Neuroimaging, Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery (Psychiatry), GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Verona, Italy. adam.j.schwarz@gsk.com FAU - Reese, Torsten AU - Reese T FAU - Gozzi, Alessandro AU - Gozzi A FAU - Bifone, Angelo AU - Bifone A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Netherlands TA - Magn Reson Imaging JT - Magnetic resonance imaging JID - 8214883 RN - 0 (Contrast Media) RN - 0 (Dextrans) RN - 0 (Magnetite Nanoparticles) RN - 0 (Oxides) RN - 0 (Suspensions) RN - CK833KGX7E (Amphetamine) RN - E1UOL152H7 (Iron) RN - G6N3J05W84 (ferumoxides) RN - I5Y540LHVR (Cocaine) RN - XM0M87F357 (Ferrosoferric Oxide) SB - IM MH - Amphetamine MH - Animals MH - Blood Volume MH - Brain/drug effects/physiopathology MH - *Cerebrovascular Circulation MH - Cocaine MH - *Contrast Media MH - Dextrans MH - Ferrosoferric Oxide MH - Iron MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/*methods MH - Magnetite Nanoparticles MH - Male MH - Oxides MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Suspensions MH - Time Factors EDAT- 2004/01/17 05:00 MHDA- 2004/05/15 05:00 CRDT- 2004/01/17 05:00 PHST- 2004/01/17 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/05/15 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/01/17 05:00 [entrez] AID - S0730725X03003308 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.mri.2003.08.020 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Magn Reson Imaging. 2003 Dec;21(10):1191-200. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2003.08.020.