scholarly journals The Cumulative Influence of Hyperoxia and Hypercapnia on Blood Oxygenation and R2*

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 2032-2042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos C Faraco ◽  
Megan K Strother ◽  
Jeroen CW Siero ◽  
Daniel F Arteaga ◽  
Allison O Scott ◽  
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Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR)-weighted blood-oxygenation-level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-MRI) experiments are frequently used in conjunction with hyperoxia. Owing to complex interactions between hyperoxia and hypercapnia, quantitative effects of these gas mixtures on BOLD responses, blood and tissue R2∗, and blood oxygenation are incompletely understood. Here we performed BOLD imaging (3T; TE/TR = 35/2,000 ms; spatial resolution = 3×3×3.5 mm3) in healthy volunteers ( n = 12; age = 29±4.1 years) breathing (i) room air (RA), (ii) normocapnic-hyperoxia (95% O2/5% N2, HO), (iii) hypercapnic-normoxia (5% CO2/21% O2/74% N2, HC-NO), and (iv) hypercapnic-hyperoxia (5% CO2/95% O2, HC-HO). For HC-HO, experiments were performed with separate RA and HO baselines to control for changes in O2. T2-relaxation-under-spin-tagging MRI was used to calculate basal venous oxygenation. Signal changes were quantified and established hemodynamic models were applied to quantify vasoactive blood oxygenation, blood–water R∗2, and tissue-water R∗2. In the cortex, fractional BOLD changes (stimulus/baseline) were HO/RA = 0.011 ± 0.007; HC-NO/RA = 0.014±0.004; HC-HO/HO = 0.020±0.008; and HC-HO/RA = 0.035 ±0.010; for the measured basal venous oxygenation level of 0.632, this led to venous blood oxygenation levels of 0.660 (HO), 0.665 (HC-NO), and 0.712 (HC-HO). Interleaving a HC-HO stimulus with HO baseline provided a smaller but significantly elevated BOLD response compared with a HC-NO stimulus. Results provide an outline for how blood oxygenation differs for several gas stimuli and provides quantitative information on how hypercapnic BOLD CVR and R∗2 are altered during hyperoxia.

Stroke ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis R Ladner ◽  
Carlos Faraco ◽  
Manus J Donahue ◽  
Daniel Arteaga ◽  
Lori C Jordan ◽  
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Introduction: Frequent dissociation between clinical severity and angiographic grading of moyamoya supports a role for alternative tissue-level hemodynamic measures. Here, angiography is complemented with noninvasive MRI measurements of parenchymal impairment to assess changes in cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) after extracranial-intracranial bypass in moyamoya. Hypothesis: CVR is regionally impaired pre-operatively, yet increases after surgery. This can be visualized noninvasively by assessing blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) MRI changes with safe, mildly hypercarbic gas. Methods: Using a block MRI paradigm, carbogen (5% CO 2 ; 95% O 2 3 min) was interleaved with atmospheric air (<1% CO 2 ; 3 min) administration during BOLD MRI in intracranial stenosis patients (n=70), a subset of which (n=9; age=35.7+/-10.8; 7F/2M) underwent indirect (n=8) or direct (n=1) revascularization for moyamoya. Five patients had both pre-operative and post-operative hemodynamic imaging, with post-operative scans performed after 7.3+/-4.1 months. CVR, calculated as a z-statistic in response to hypercarbia vs. atmospheric air, was compared (two-tailed t-test) for each patient between the two time points to correlate CVR changes with surgery. Results: Fig. 1 shows BOLD MRI on a patient scanned before and 2 years after right-sided indirect bypass, with significant (t=79.29, p<0.01) right-sided hemodynamic improvement. Cohort analyses of patients with pre/post-operative scans revealed significant interhemispheric CVR differences prior to surgery (t=3.48, p<0.01), which resolved after bypass (t=0.88, p=0.20). Additionally, CVR increased significantly in the operative hemisphere (t=4.50, p<0.01). Conclusions: CVR-weighted hemodynamic MRI can be implemented into routine clinical protocols, corresponds well with revascularization response, and has potential as a noninvasive complement to angiography for serial monitoring of moyamoya patients.


Nephron ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jing Yang ◽  
Shuohui Yang ◽  
Yizeng Xu ◽  
Fang Lu ◽  
Lan You ◽  
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<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> The basic pathophysiologic derangement of chronic kidney disease (CKD) begins with the loss of nephrons, leading to renal hemodynamic changes, eventually causing a reduced nephron count and renal hypoxia. The purpose of this study was to observe the renal oxygenation and renal hemodynamics of patients with CKD using blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and intrarenal Doppler ultrasonography (IDU). <b><i>Methods:</i></b> The study enrolled 39 patients with stage 1–4 CKD and 19 healthy volunteers (HVs). Based on their estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), CKD patients were divided into 2 subgroups: a mild renal impairment (MI) group and a moderate to severe renal impairment (MSI) group. We monitored the participants’ mean cortical T2* (COT2*) and mean medullary T2* (MET2*) values on BOLD-MRI, and measured the peak systolic velocities (PSVs), end-diastolic velocities (EDVs), renal resistive index (RI), and kidney length by IDU. We also recorded clinical indicators such as age, sex, body mass index (BMI), 24-h urinary protein (24-h Upr), serum creatinine (sCr), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and eGFR. BOLD-MRI, IDU measurements, and the clinical indicators were compared in CKD patients and HVs by the analysis of variance and Kruskal-Wallis <i>H</i> test. Spearman’s correlation was used to assess the relationship between data from BOLD-MRI and IDU and clinical indicators. <b><i>Results:</i></b> The COT2* values were significantly higher than the MET2* values in the HV, MI, and MSI groups. COT2*, MET2*, EDV, PSV, and kidney length gradually decreased in the HV, MI, and MSI groups (all <i>p &#x3c;</i> 0.05), whereas RI and 24-h Upr gradually increased (both <i>p</i> &#x3c; 0.05). Spearman correlation analysis showed that COT2* and MET2* were significantly positively correlated with eGFR, PSV, EDV, and kidney length but were significantly negatively correlated with sCr, BUN, and 24-h Upr (all <i>p</i> &#x3c; 0.05). There was no correlation observed between the COT2* and MET2* and the RI and BMI values. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> Renal oxygenation and blood flow velocities were found declined as the CKD stage progressed. The BOLD-MRI and IDU techniques may have clinical value by measuring intrarenal oxygenation and renal blood perfusion to judge the severity of renal damage in patients with CKD.


2021 ◽  
pp. 0271678X2110645
Author(s):  
Pieter T Deckers ◽  
Alex A Bhogal ◽  
Mathijs BJ Dijsselhof ◽  
Carlos C Faraco ◽  
Peiying Liu ◽  
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Blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) or arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI with hypercapnic stimuli allow for measuring cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR). Hypercapnic stimuli are also employed in calibrated BOLD functional MRI for quantifying neuronally-evoked changes in cerebral oxygen metabolism (CMRO2). It is often assumed that hypercapnic stimuli (with or without hyperoxia) are iso-metabolic; increasing arterial CO2 or O2 does not affect CMRO2. We evaluated the null hypothesis that two common hypercapnic stimuli, ‘CO2 in air’ and carbogen, are iso-metabolic. TRUST and ASL MRI were used to measure the cerebral venous oxygenation and cerebral blood flow (CBF), from which the oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and CMRO2 were calculated for room-air, ‘CO2 in air’ and carbogen. As expected, CBF significantly increased (9.9% ± 9.3% and 12.1% ± 8.8% for ‘CO2 in air’ and carbogen, respectively). CMRO2 decreased for ‘CO2 in air’ (−13.4% ± 13.0%, p < 0.01) compared to room-air, while the CMRO2 during carbogen did not significantly change. Our findings indicate that ‘CO2 in air’ is not iso-metabolic, while carbogen appears to elicit a mixed effect; the CMRO2 reduction during hypercapnia is mitigated when including hyperoxia. These findings can be important for interpreting measurements using hypercapnic or hypercapnic-hyperoxic (carbogen) stimuli.


2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 1391-1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qidong Wang ◽  
Chuangen Guo ◽  
Lan Zhang ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Zhaoming Wang ◽  
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Objective To investigate changes in renal oxygenation levels by blood-oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD)-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and to evaluate BOLD-MRI for detecting early diabetic renal injury. Methods Seventy-five rats, with unilateral nephrectomy, were randomly divided into streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus (DM, n = 65) and normal control (NC, n = 10) groups. BOLD-MRI scans were performed at baseline (both groups) and at 3, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63 and 70 days (DM only). Renal cortical (C) and medullary (M) R2* signals were measured and R2* medulla/cortex ratio (MCR) was calculated. Results DM-group CR2* and MR2* values were significantly higher than NC values following diabetes induction. R2* values increased gradually and peaked at day 35 (CR2*, 33.95 ± 0.34 s–1; MR2*, 43.79 ± 1.46 s–1), then dropped gradually (CR2*, 33.17 ± 0.69 s–1; MR2*, 41.61 ± 0.95 s–1 at day 70). DM-group MCR rose gradually from 1.12 to 1.32 at day 42, then decreased to 1.25 by day 70. Conclusions BOLD-MRI can be used to non-invasively evaluate renal hypoxia and early diabetic renal injury in diabetic rats. MCR may be adopted to reflect dynamic changes in renal hypoxia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Giovanni Muscas ◽  
Christiaan Hendrik Bas van Niftrik ◽  
Martina Sebök ◽  
Katharina Seystahl ◽  
Marco Piccirelli ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Herman ◽  
Basavaraju G Sanganahalli ◽  
Fahmeed Hyder

As an alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast, cerebral blood volume (CBV)-weighted fMRI with intravascular contrast agents in animal models have become popular. In this study, dynamic measurements of CBV were performed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and laser-Doppler flowmetry (LDF) in α-chloralose anesthetized rats during forepaw stimulation. All recordings were localized to the contralateral primary somatosensory cortex as revealed by BOLD at 11.7 T. Ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxide (15mg/kg)—a plasma-borne MRI contrast agent with a half-life of several hours in blood circulation—was used to quantify changes in magnetic field inhomogeneity in blood plasma. The LDF backscattered laser light (805 nm), which reflects the amount of red blood cells, was used to measure alterations in the non-plasma compartment. Dynamic and layer-specific comparisons of the two CBV signals during functional hyperemia revealed excellent correlations (> 0.86). These results suggest that CBV measurements from either compartment may be used to reflect dynamic changes in total CBV. Furthermore, by assuming steady-state mass balance and negligible counter flow, these results indicate that volume hematocrit is not appreciably affected during functional activation.


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