New fMRI postprocessing HASTE map technique to increase accuracy of the cortical BOLD activation in the visual cortex

A. B. Pinus; F. B. Mohamed; S. H. Faro; J. I. Tracy; R. Koenigsberg; F. Y. Tsai

New fMRI postprocessing HASTE map technique to increase accuracy of the cortical BOLD activation in the visual cortex

A. B. Pinus, F. B. Mohamed, S. H. Faro, J. I. Tracy, R. Koenigsberg, F. Y. Tsai

School of Medicine

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Abstract

In functional MRI (fMRI), blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) imaging studies of the brain activated voxels often appear in sulci. True positive activation appears due to the presence of paramagnetic deoxyhemoglobin blood because of cortical neural activity. False positive activation may occur within non-cortical cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spaces due to activation in vessels and CFS flow within sulci adjacent to the area performing a task. Also, true positive task-nonrelevant BOLD activation appearing in sulci away from the neuroanatomical regions associated with a specific task was assumed as false activation. Such false activations may lead to misinterpretations of fMRI maps. The currently used echo-planar imaging (EPI) techniques lack high spatial resolution to differentiate such false positive activation from true positive activation. The specific aim of this work was to develop an fMRI image postprocessing technique to identify the sulci in the EPI images using Half-Fourier Turbo-Spin Echo (HASTE) sequence. High resolution HASTE images are insensitive to susceptibility effect and have high contrast differences between areas filled with fluids and brain parenchyma. Therefore these HASTE images can be effectively used to clearly separate CSF in the sulci from other cortical brain structures where the true BOLD activation is present.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Print)	0780356756
State	Published - Dec 1 1999
Event	Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1st Joint BMES / EMBS) - Atlanta, GA, USA Duration: Oct 13 1999 → Oct 16 1999

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Name	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
Volume	2
ISSN (Print)	0589-1019

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Other	Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1st Joint BMES / EMBS)
City	Atlanta, GA, USA
Period	10/13/99 → 10/16/99

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Health Informatics

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Pinus, A. B., Mohamed, F. B., Faro, S. H., Tracy, J. I., Koenigsberg, R., & Tsai, F. Y. (1999). New fMRI postprocessing HASTE map technique to increase accuracy of the cortical BOLD activation in the visual cortex. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings (Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings; Vol. 2). IEEE.

New fMRI postprocessing HASTE map technique to increase accuracy of the cortical BOLD activation in the visual cortex. / Pinus, A. B.; Mohamed, F. B.; Faro, S. H. et al.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings. IEEE, 1999. (Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings; Vol. 2).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Pinus, AB, Mohamed, FB, Faro, SH, Tracy, JI, Koenigsberg, R & Tsai, FY 1999, New fMRI postprocessing HASTE map technique to increase accuracy of the cortical BOLD activation in the visual cortex. in Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings, vol. 2, IEEE, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1st Joint BMES / EMBS), Atlanta, GA, USA, 10/13/99.

Pinus AB, Mohamed FB, Faro SH, Tracy JI, Koenigsberg R, Tsai FY. New fMRI postprocessing HASTE map technique to increase accuracy of the cortical BOLD activation in the visual cortex. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings. IEEE. 1999. (Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings).

Pinus, A. B. ; Mohamed, F. B. ; Faro, S. H. et al. / New fMRI postprocessing HASTE map technique to increase accuracy of the cortical BOLD activation in the visual cortex. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings. IEEE, 1999. (Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings).

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