PMID- 32854196 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201020 IS - 2075-4418 (Print) IS - 2075-4418 (Electronic) IS - 2075-4418 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 9 DP - 2020 Aug 25 TI - Hyperpolarized (129)Xe Time-of-Flight MR Imaging of Perfusion and Brain Function. LID - 10.3390/diagnostics10090630 [doi] LID - 630 AB - Perfusion measurements can provide vital information about the homeostasis of an organ and can therefore be used as biomarkers to diagnose a variety of cardiovascular, renal, and neurological diseases. Currently, the most common techniques to measure perfusion are (15)O positron emission tomography (PET), xenon-enhanced computed tomography (CT), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI, and arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI. Here, we show how regional perfusion can be quantitively measured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using time-resolved depolarization of hyperpolarized (HP) xenon-129 ((129)Xe), and the application of this approach to detect changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) due to a hemodynamic response in response to brain stimuli. The investigated HP (129)Xe Time-of-Flight (TOF) technique produced perfusion images with an average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 10.35. Furthermore, to our knowledge, the first hemodynamic response (HDR) map was acquired in healthy volunteers using the HP (129)Xe TOF imaging. Responses to visual and motor stimuli were observed. The acquired HP TOF HDR maps correlated well with traditional proton blood oxygenation level-dependent functional MRI. Overall, this study expands the field of HP MRI with a novel dynamic imaging technique suitable for rapid and quantitative perfusion imaging. FAU - Shepelytskyi, Yurii AU - Shepelytskyi Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5526-7958 AD - Chemistry and Materials Science Program, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. AD - Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute, 980 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. FAU - Hane, Francis T AU - Hane FT AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2738-584X AD - Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute, 980 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. AD - Chemistry Department, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. FAU - Grynko, Vira AU - Grynko V AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9580-0072 AD - Chemistry and Materials Science Program, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. AD - Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute, 980 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. FAU - Li, Tao AU - Li T AD - Chemistry Department, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. FAU - Hassan, Ayman AU - Hassan A AD - Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, 980 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 6V4, Canada. AD - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. FAU - Albert, Mitchell S AU - Albert MS AD - Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute, 980 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. AD - Chemistry Department, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. AD - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. LA - eng GR - ORF RE 09 029/Ontario Research Foundation/ GR - A-18-05/Northern Ontario Academic Medicine Association/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200825 PL - Switzerland TA - Diagnostics (Basel) JT - Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101658402 PMC - PMC7554935 OTO - NOTNLM OT - fMRI OT - hemodynamic response OT - hyperpolarized 129Xe OT - hyperpolarized time-of-flight MRI OT - perfusion imaging COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2020/08/29 06:00 MHDA- 2020/08/29 06:01 PMCR- 2020/08/25 CRDT- 2020/08/29 06:00 PHST- 2020/08/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/08/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/08/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/08/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/08/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/08/29 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/25 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - diagnostics10090630 [pii] AID - diagnostics-10-00630 [pii] AID - 10.3390/diagnostics10090630 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Diagnostics (Basel). 2020 Aug 25;10(9):630. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10090630.