fmri : mr imaging of brain function
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fMRI : MR Imaging
of Brain Function
Hsiao-Wen Chung (鍾孝文), Ph.D., Professor
Dept. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Univ.
Dept. Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital
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Our First Lecture …
• MR not just a morphology tool
– Function + metabolism
• Diagnosis & therapy monitoring
• What functions can MRI show?
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Functional Info in MRI
• Flow velocity (PC-MRI)
• Fiber tracking (DTI)
• Hemodynamics (perfusion)
• Metabolism (spectroscopy) ...
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What Else Can MR Show?
• Brain neuron activation?
– What are you thinking now?
– Lie detector??
– Politian sex scandal???
– Endocrinology????
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CNS Reaction upon Acupuncture
Wu MT et al., Radiology 1999
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Brain Decides Behavior
• Behavior = pattern of brain
neuron activation physiologically
• I can know what you are thinking
as long as I see what part of your
brain is activating
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Neuron upon Stimulation
• Action potential firing ...
• Energy required (from ATP) ...
• Blood supplies nutrients …
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MRI Can Detect …
• Action potential firing ...
• Energy required (from ATP) ...
• Blood supplies nutrients …
– Blood、oxygen
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First on Blood Flow
• Neural activation needs blood supply
for nutrients
• Stimulation blood flow increases
– Known long time ago
• Can perfusion MRI see it ?
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Experiment One
• Gd-DTPA injection
• Perfusion MRI for rCBV
• Compare rCBV before & after
visual stimulation
– Twice Gd injection
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Note
• Not a particularly new research
• Just show functional MRI feasible
• Similar to routine nuclear medicine
• MRI superior in no radiation
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rCBV Changes upon Visual Stimulation
Increased CBV (Science 1991)
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Then on Oxygen
• Neural activation needs oxygen
• Energy supplied by ATP
• 1 glucose + O2 = 36 ATP
• Oxidative phosphorylation
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Then on Oxygen
• Oxygen level should change
upon neural stimulation
• Hemoglobin in blood releases
oxygen into tissue
• Can MRI see this change?
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Hemoglobin Property
• Oxy: diamagnetic (Dc = -10-6~10-5)
• Deoxy: paramagnetic (Dc = +10-3~10-2)
• Tissue: mostly diamagnetic
• Deoxy-Hb disturbs Bo homogeneity
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Hemoglobin Property
• Deoxy-Hb presence Bo
disturbed T2* shortened
low signal in gradient-echo
• GrE signal ~ blood oxygenation
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Bo Distortion from Susceptibility
Distorted Bo shortened T2*
Diamagnetic
Paramagnetic
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Bo Distortion from RBC Susceptibility
Signal decay from inhomogeneous Bo
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Experimental Evidence?
• Altered blood oxygenation
– Inhale pure oxygen
– Inhale pure nitrogen
• Signal changes in brain MRI
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Blood Susceptibility vs. Oxygenation
Less oxygen, stronger paramagnetism
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Rat Brain T2* Images
Normal air Pure oxygen
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Signal Changes in Cat Brain
T2* shortened after inhaling pure nitrogen
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MRI Can Detect …
• Action potential firing ...
• Energy required (from ATP) ...
• Blood supplies nutrients …
– Blood、oxygen
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No Longer Mysterious
• rCBV detectable
• Blood oxygenation detectable
• Brain functional MRI feasible
– Functional MRI (fMRI)
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Experiment 2
• Give a simple “behavior”
– Visual stimulation
• MRI, T2*-weighted (EPI)
• Compare signal before & after
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Signals upon Visual Stimulation
Signal stronger with stimulation
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Spatial Distribution of Signal Behavior
Kwong et al., PNAS 1992
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Why Signal Increases?
• Increase in oxygen required upon
stimulation
• Blood supply over-compensates with
even more oxygen (homeostasis)
• Deoxy-Hb reduced (venous side)
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Let’s Name It
• Blood Oxygenation Level
Dependent contrast (BOLD)
• Signal change upon stimulation
is “related” to blood oxygenation
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Lie Detector Then !
• Don’t panic ...
– Look at fMRI data again
– Note vertical signal scale !
• BOLD signal sensitivity
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BOLD Signal for Visual Stimulation
Signal increase about 4% only
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BOLD Sensitivity (1.5T)
• Visual cortex: strongest BOLD
• Signal change: 1~6% (2% typical)
– Cf: 40 gray levels naked eye
• SNR < 50: noise > BOLD signal
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Increase Sensitivity
• More experiments!
• Data averaged to reduce noise
• Expense: experiment time &
memory size
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Common Stimulation Paradigm
Box Car Paradigm
ON ON ON
OFF OFF OFF OFF
continuous scanning
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Simplest fMRI
• Continual image acquisition
– Stimulus on ~ 10 x 4
– Stimulus off ~ 15 x 5
• ON averaged – OFF averaged
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Scanning Technique
• Sufficient T2* weighting
– Gradient-echo (TE~60 @ 1.5T)
• Fast scan for continuous scan
– EPI, short TR GrE, spiral
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fMRI Signal Behavior
• ON: higher, OFF: lower
– At least roughly
• Signal pattern generally follows
stimulus paradigm
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Signal Follows Stimulus Paradigm
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Improved Analysis
• Compare similarity of signal pattern
to stimulus paradigm
• Correlation analysis
– High correlation: strong response
– Low correlation: weak response
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Correlation Analysis
High correlation functional activation
Paradigm In
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Student’s t Test
Compare statistical difference of OFF vs. ON
OFF ON OFF ON
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Simple to Complex
• Since Student’s t test works, why
not advanced statistics?
• Analysis of variance, principal
component analysis …
• Whatever shows “activation”
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The SPM Concept in fMRI
• Statistical Parametric Maps
• Calculate statistical parameters
for every pixels
• Show the parameter as a map
• Finally got it …
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But Then, the Functional Map …
What ????
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Can’t See Anything?
• Activation is surely not global
– Different functions localized in
different brain regions
• Simple function less areas seen
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Overlapped on T1WI
• T1 image: gray scale
– High resolution, good contrast
• Functional activation: color
– Now you see activation areas
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BOLD Signal Overlapped on T1WI
T1WI: gray, functional signal: color
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fMRI of Left Auditory Stimulation
L R
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Then Do 3D Localization
• Three-plane visualization
• Volume/surface rendering
• Cortical surface & inflation
• All digital image processing!
• Becomes somewhat tedious …
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fMRI of Left Auditory Stimulation
gray : anatomy
color : activation
L R
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fMRI of Left Auditory Stimulation
Gray: anatomy, color: activation
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Cortical Surface and Inflation
Cortical surface Cortical inflation
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Of Course Then …
• T1WI ideally has coronal, axial, &
sagittal orientations
• Or just high-resolution 3D T1WI
– 3D gradient-echo, large flip angle
• Scan time, SNR …
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More Problems Arise
• EPI shows geometric distortions,
but T1WI does not
– Corrections needed
• Image registration
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Geometric Distortions in EPI
EPI T2 FSE T2
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Even Registered …
• Results from single subject not
necessarily representative
• Sensitivity inadequate (cognitive)
• Multiple subject data combined
– Inter-subject averaging
• What about head size difference?
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Inter-Subject Averaging
• Talairach coordinate common
• Register with cerebral landmarks
• Anterior/posterior commissure
– Or called the AC-PC line
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Talairach Coordinate System
Most common intersubject average method
+z
+y +y
-z
Corpus Callosum Thalamus Posterior Commissure
Anterior Commissure
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Talairach Coordinate System
3-plane for spatial coordinate
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… to Finally Get fMRI Like This
professional amateur
corrected p-value 0.05 corrected p-value 0.05
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Summary: fMRI Principle
• Blood & oxygenation changes with
neural stimulation
• Blood + oxygen ~ BOLD contrast
– Susceptibility of oxy- & deoxy-Hb
– T2* decay from Bo inhomogeneity
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Summary: fMRI Steps
• T2*WI continual acquisition
– 1.5T often uses EPI
• Off-on-off-on boxcar paridigm
• Compare ON/OFF signals
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Summary: fMRI Steps
• Signal & paradigm correlation
• Statistical significance (p or t scores)
overlapped on anatomical T1WI
• Talairach coordinate system for
inter-subject averaging
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Resource Requirements
• Continual acquisition
– ON ~ 10 x 4
– OFF ~ 15 x 5
• 8 slices nearly 1000 images!
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Resource Requirements
• MRI-compatible stimulation (visual,
auditory …) equipments
• Large console hard disk space
• Off-line calculation hard/software
• Cross-disciplinary human resource
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Human Resource (1)
• Clinical diagnosis: radiologist
• Scan operation: technologist
• Analysis: statistician
• Stimulus paradigm: psychologist
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Human Resource (2)
• Brain pathology: neurologist
• Registration software: engineer
• MRI sequences: physicist
• Subject: patient + student (??)
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Brain Functional MRI
• Looks quite tedious indeed
– I feel tired …
• But these troubles are not
important at all
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fMRI Technical Issues
• Low sensitivity (1~6% at 1.5T)
• Low confidence in experiment result
• Difficult interpretation in possible
physiological mechanisms
• High clinical false positive/negative
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BOLD Signal for Visual Stimulation
Signal increase about 4% only (typical 2%)
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Low Sensitivity Problems
• Noise relatively large
– ON – OFF = mostly noise
– Functional map unreliable
• Fundamental solution: high SNR
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How to Increase SNR?
• Larger voxel size
– Lower spatial resolution
• Signal averages, long TR …
– Lower temporal resolution
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Spatial Resolution
• Voxel ideally isotropic
– 3.0x3.0x3.0 mm3
• Ideal for “geometry & SNR” only
• Not in terms of activation areas!
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Can You Sacrifice Spatial Resolution?
If you need detailed localization, no!
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Temporal Resolution
• Roughly fine for boxcar paradigm
(repetitive experiments anyway)
• What if you want immediate
response following stimulation?
– Hemodynamics? Single trial?
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Can You Sacrifice Time Resolution?
If you want immediate response, no!
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Functional Signal Time Course (FID)
Time scale of signal change: within 1 sec
0 msec
500
100
1500
5000
control visual
cortex
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How to Increase SNR ?
• Shorten TE
– T2*-weighting lowered (BOLD)
• Surface coil for receiving
– No global functional info
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Not Just SNR …
• fMRI for brain functional mapping
• Is the geometry accurate?
– EPI has lots of artifacts!
– Localization with distorted image?
• Unless use non-EPI (FLASH …)
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Geometric Distortions in EPI
EPI T2 FSE T2
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EPI Geometric Distortion
• Off resonance displacement
– Along EPI phase direction
• Shimming before scanning
• Correction using Bo field map
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Field Map to Correct EPI Distortions
But field map sequence not widely available
Spin-echo Bo map
After
correction Before
correction
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MRI System Stability
• EPI so sensitive to Bo
– What if Bo unstable?
• Scan phantom for signal change?
• Scan phantom for phase change?
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Motion Effects (1)
• Imprecise localization
– Resembles cortical activation after
subtraction
• Some region not excited previously
– Like flow-related enhancement
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Motion Resembles Cortical Activation
Motion only With stimulus
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Unsaturated Spins “Enhanced”
Unsaturated signal similar to false activation
slice for continual scan actual slice
with motion
problematic
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Motion Effects (2)
• Ghosts in non-EPI scans
– Cardiac pulsation, CSF flow ...
• Susceptibility Bo changes
– Different EPI geometry in
every images
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Ghosts from Involuntary Motion
Desired image Motion ghosts
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Motion Leads to Bo Distortion Change
50 rotation can lead to 50Hz change (2~4 pixels)
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Even Worse …
• Involuntary motion often correlated
with stimulus paradigm
– Moving fingers vs. not moving
– Visual stimulation vs. lights off
• Motion easily induced by stimuli
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Motion May Resemble Stimuli
Stimulus paradigm
Horizontal & vertical
head movements
Rotation angle
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Some More Problems!
• Choice of statistical analysis
• Subtraction gives noise
• Then use statistical analysis
• Various methods give different
analysis results ?
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Comparison of Statistical Analysis
Which one do you believe then?
analysis of
variance
(ANOVA)
Student’s
t-test
Subtraction
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Which fMRI Is Correct?
Correlation SPM ’99
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I Found Something …
• … that never got reported before!
• New discovery? Artifacts?
• Where is the boundary?
• How to interpret the results?
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Inter-Subject Averaging
• For increased sensitivity
• Can you average different brains?
• Individual emphasized in psychology
• Even if yes, is Talairach accurate?
• Cultural difference in head shape
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Individual Difference Always Exists
Talairach shows sulci displaced by ~cm
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Cultural Difference in Head Shape
Sweden Japanese
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Never Mentioned Before?
• Clinical MRI: visible difference
– Problems relatively minor
• fMRI relies on 1~6% changes
– All influences “magnified”
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In Fact ...
• Almost all fMRI difficulties arise
from sensitivity (1~6% at 1.5T)
– 1~6%: primary visual cortex
– Cognitive: Much smaller!
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I Found Something New!
• New discovery? Artifacts?
– Hard to distinguish
• Removing artifacts risks removing
new discovery
• Reporting new findings risks
reporting garbage
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For Research People
• Treat as artifacts!
– Research without new finding?
• Treat as new findings!
– How to convince other people?
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Great! Cerebrospinal Fluid Thinks!
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For Clinicians
• As long as fMRI helps diagnosis,
I don’t care about new finding …
• Patient fMRI is another story
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Performing a Task
• If patient has difficulty executing
the task, interpretation has to be
very, very careful
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Patient fMRI Difficulty (1)
• Has difficulty in moving fingers
• BOLD signal smaller than normal?
– Brain function deficits?
– Less moving less signal?
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Patient fMRI Difficulty (1)
• Has difficulty in moving fingers
• BOLD signal larger than normal?
– Patient tries his best moving?
– Inhibitory neuron activated?
– More area recruited for the task?
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Performing a Task
• If patient has difficulty executing
the task, interpretation has to be
very, very careful
• Scanning patients with tasks
they can perform !
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Patient fMRI Difficulty (2)
• Patient condition surely different
– Lesion size, location, property ...
• Inter-subject averaging meaningless
• Low-sensitivity experiments (e.g.,
higher-order cognition) impossible
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fMRI Conclusion
• Either nothing particular
• Or you see too many activations
• High uncertainty, unless all
technical details well controlled
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fMRI So Unsure, But …
• Only noninvasive tool for brain
– EEG: low spatial resolution
– PET: radioactive isotope
– ECoG: open surgery
– MEG: 2 in Taiwan only …
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Information from MRI
• MR not just a morphology tool
– Function + metabolism
• Diagnosis & therapy monitoring
• fMRI: direct functional mapping
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fMRI Reliability
• Scientists worldwide know that it is
believable
• Most people know that it is not easy
• Noting the details aggressively is
better than ignoring the problems
• To let results reflect the truth
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A Lot More Difficulties !
• Aerobic or anaerobic metabolism?
• Post-stimulus undershoot
• Initial dip
• Neural &psychological fatique ...
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Problems Everywhere!
• People hating fMRI are completely
understandable
• What about you guys who are
unlucky to be assigned fMRI topics?
– Single trial, event-related, …
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My Only Suggestion
• Repeat simplest fMRI many times
• Assure your result is meaningful
• No wild speculation, don’t neglect
artifact details
• They all take time !
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fMRI (Left Auditory Stimulation)
2001 Calium (2 years spent on fMRI)
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Brain fMRI (Right Finger Tapping)
Gray: anatomy, color: activation
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Brain fMRI (Checkerboard Visual)
Gray: anatomy, color: activation
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2003 Connie, Cox (2 More Years)
professional amateur
corrected p-value 0.05 corrected p-value 0.05
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2004 William (n = 32) (1 More Year)
amateur female
professional female
amateur male
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2006 Jerome, Peixin (2 More Years)
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2006 Jerome, Peixin (2 More Years)
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Comparison: 2001 Visual fMRI
Gray: anatomy, color: activation
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Sensitivity Level (2006 Visual fMRI)
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In Taiwan …
• High-field MRI is a hope …
• High-field: fundamental increase
of SNR & BOLD contrast
• BOLD is not the only possibility
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High-Field Pros
• Larger susceptibility effects
• Better fMRI sensitivity
– 1.5 Tesla : 1% ~ 6%
– 3.0 Tesla : 4% ~ 15%
– 7.0 Tesla : ??
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High-Field fMRI Signal
1.5T & 4.0T comparison
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High-Field Cons
• Larger susceptibility effects
• Strong distortion & signal loss from
air cavities
• Shimming gets harder
• EPI hardware requirement increases
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Pros and Cons ?
• Use the advantages
• Solve the disadvantages
– Not directly doable by just
“saying” or “claiming”
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High-Field Is a Hope …
• 3T/7T Bruker vs. 1.5T/3T
Siemens/GE is yet another story
• You need to spend efforts !
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fMRI : MR Imaging
of Brain Function
Hsiao-Wen Chung (鍾孝文), Ph.D., Professor
Dept. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Univ.
Dept. Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital
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BOLD Effect 與無氧代謝
• 神經活動需要氧氣供應
• 血流過度代償,去氧血紅素變稀 ?
• 有氧呼吸過程極慢
• 神經活動所需 ATP 由無氧呼吸合成
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有沒有辦法驗證呢 ?
• 無氧代謝的產物 : 乳酸
• Lactate 可由 MRS 測得 ...
– MRS 的困難度我們下次會學
– 瞬間的 Lac 變化 ?????
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無氧代謝的證據
Lactate doublet 的出現 (Frahm 1996)
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信號的 Undershoot
• 見於刺激剛結束後的休息狀態下
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fMRI 信號的 Undershoot
意義至今仍有爭論
Stimulus ON
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Undershoot 的困擾
• Timing
• 干擾分析
• 來源如何解釋 ?
– 與生理是否有關 ?
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fMRI 信號的 Initial Dip
爭論甚多 而且推論還十分嚴謹
Stimulus ON
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Initial Dip
• 每次刺激,信號都先降後升
• 來源如何解釋 ?
– Frahm (1998) : artifacts
– Ugurbil (1999) : BOLD T2*
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神經與心理的疲勞 …
• 刺激太久了,反應開始降低
– 心理作用 ?
– 生理改變所引發 ?
– 實驗設計不良 ?