TY - JOUR
T1 - Hemodynamic and metabolic correspondence of resting-state voxel-based physiological metrics in healthy adults
AU - Deng, Shengwen
AU - Franklin, Crystal G.
AU - O'Boyle, Michael
AU - Zhang, Wei
AU - Heyl, Betty L.
AU - Jerabek, Paul A.
AU - Lu, Hanzhang
AU - Fox, Peter T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by awards from the United States National Institutes of Health (R01 MH084021, R01 MH-074457 and P30 AG-066546). We would like to thank Research Computing Support Group at UTSA for assistance in computation resources. This work received computational support from UTSA's HPC cluster SHAMU, operated by the Office of Information Technology. We thank Dr. Geoffrey D. Clarke for editing suggestions.
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© 2022
PY - 2022/4/15
Y1 - 2022/4/15
N2 - Voxel-based physiological (VBP) variables derived from blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fMRI time-course variations include: amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF), fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (fALFF) and regional homogeneity (ReHo). Although these BOLD-derived variables can detect between-group (e.g. disease vs control) spatial pattern differences, physiological interpretations are not well established. The primary objective of this study was to quantify spatial correspondences between BOLD VBP variables and PET measurements of cerebral metabolic rate and hemodynamics, being well-validated physiological standards. To this end, quantitative, whole-brain PET images of metabolic rate of glucose (MRGlu; 18FDG) and oxygen (MRO2; 15OO), blood flow (BF; H215O) and blood volume (BV; C15O) were obtained in 16 healthy controls. In the same subjects, BOLD time-courses were obtained for computation of ALFF, fALFF and ReHo images. PET variables were compared pair-wise with BOLD variables. In group-averaged, across-region analyses, ALFF corresponded significantly only with BV (R = 0.64; p < 0.0001). fALFF corresponded most strongly with MRGlu (R = 0.79; p < 0.0001), but also significantly (p < 0.0001) with MRO2 (R = 0.68), BF (R = 0.68) and BV (R=0.68). ReHo performed similarly to fALFF, with significant strong correspondence (p < 0.0001) with MRGlu (R = 0.78), MRO2 (R = 0.54), and, but less strongly with BF (R = 0.50) and BV (R=0.50). Mutual information analyses further clarified these physiological interpretations. When conditioned by BV, ALFF retained no significant MRGlu, MRO2 or BF information. When conditioned by MRGlu, fALFF and ReHo retained no significant MRO2, BF or BV information. Of concern, however, the strength of PET-BOLD correspondences varied markedly by brain region, which calls for future investigation on physiological interpretations at a regional and per-subject basis.
AB - Voxel-based physiological (VBP) variables derived from blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fMRI time-course variations include: amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF), fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (fALFF) and regional homogeneity (ReHo). Although these BOLD-derived variables can detect between-group (e.g. disease vs control) spatial pattern differences, physiological interpretations are not well established. The primary objective of this study was to quantify spatial correspondences between BOLD VBP variables and PET measurements of cerebral metabolic rate and hemodynamics, being well-validated physiological standards. To this end, quantitative, whole-brain PET images of metabolic rate of glucose (MRGlu; 18FDG) and oxygen (MRO2; 15OO), blood flow (BF; H215O) and blood volume (BV; C15O) were obtained in 16 healthy controls. In the same subjects, BOLD time-courses were obtained for computation of ALFF, fALFF and ReHo images. PET variables were compared pair-wise with BOLD variables. In group-averaged, across-region analyses, ALFF corresponded significantly only with BV (R = 0.64; p < 0.0001). fALFF corresponded most strongly with MRGlu (R = 0.79; p < 0.0001), but also significantly (p < 0.0001) with MRO2 (R = 0.68), BF (R = 0.68) and BV (R=0.68). ReHo performed similarly to fALFF, with significant strong correspondence (p < 0.0001) with MRGlu (R = 0.78), MRO2 (R = 0.54), and, but less strongly with BF (R = 0.50) and BV (R=0.50). Mutual information analyses further clarified these physiological interpretations. When conditioned by BV, ALFF retained no significant MRGlu, MRO2 or BF information. When conditioned by MRGlu, fALFF and ReHo retained no significant MRO2, BF or BV information. Of concern, however, the strength of PET-BOLD correspondences varied markedly by brain region, which calls for future investigation on physiological interpretations at a regional and per-subject basis.
KW - ALFF
KW - BOLD
KW - Brain
KW - Hemodynamics
KW - Metabolism
KW - PET
KW - ReHo
KW - VBP
KW - Voxel-Based Physiology
KW - fALFF
KW - fMRI
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118923
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118923
M3 - Article
C2 - 35066157
AN - SCOPUS:85123730107
VL - 250
JO - NeuroImage
JF - NeuroImage
SN - 1053-8119
M1 - 118923
ER -