Cited by 78Advanced MRI Techniques and ApplicationsFunctional Brain Connectivity StudiesAdvanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

The spatial extent of the BOLD response

Saad, Ziad S, Ropella, Kristina M, DeYoe, Edgar A, Bandettini, Peter A·2003·NeuroImage

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging is routinely used to localize brain function, with multiple brain scans averaged together to reveal activation volumes. In this study, we examine the seldom-studied effect of multiple scan averaging on the extent of activation volume. Using restricted visual field stimulation, we obtained a large number of scan repetitions and analyzed changes in activation volume with progressively increased averaging and across single scans. Activation volume increased monotonically with averaging and failed to asymptote when as many as 22 scans were averaged together. Expansions in the spatial extent of activation were not random; rather, they were centered about activation loci that appear with little or no averaging. Using empirical and simulated data, changes with averaging in activation volumes and cross correlation coefficient distributions revealed the presence of considerably more activated voxels than commonly surmised. Many voxels have low SNR and remain undetected without extensive averaging. The primary source of such voxels was not downstream venous drainage since there was no significant and consistent delay difference between voxels activated at different averaging levels. Voxels with low SNR may reflect a diffuse subthreshold activity centered about spiking neurons, dephasing gradients from distal veins, or simply a blood flow response extending beyond the locus of neuronal firing. Across single scans, as much as twofold changes in activation volume were observed. These changes were not correlated with the order of scan acquisition, subject task performance, or signal and noise properties of activated voxels. Instead, they may reflect subtle changes between overlapping noise and signal frequency components.

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Authors
Saad, Z. S., Ropella, K. M., DeYoe, E. A., & Bandettini, P. A.
Affiliations
  • Marquette University (US)
  • Medical College of Wisconsin (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Saad, Ziad S
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-05
Volume
19
Issue
1
Pages
132-144
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2014712720
Cited by
78
References
86
Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 3
FWCI
5.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01ey010244-08)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (P01MH051358, MH 51358)
  • National Eye Institute (EY10244)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Keywords
BOLD signal, activation volume, signal-to-noise ratio, subthreshold activity, venous drainage, cross-correlation coefficient
MeSH terms
Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Computer Simulation, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Models, Neurological, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Visual Fields

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