International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging IJMPI
Vol. 11 No. 1 Suppl 1 (2025): Int J Mag Part Imag
https://doi.org/10.18416/IJMPI.2025.2503029
Measurement of cerebral blood volume modulation in non-human primates
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Copyright (c) 2025 Alex C. Barksdale, Frauke H. Niebel, Jorge Chacon-Caldera, Monika ?liwiak, John M. Drago, Eli Mattingly, Matthias Graeser, Hong P. Deng, Joseph B. Mandeville, Lawrence L. Wald

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Abstract
MPI offers a promising alternative to fMRI for detecting changes in cerebral blood volume (CBV) during brain activation, potentially enabling single-patient functional brain mapping. We assess our human-scale MPI brain scanner by imaging anesthetized non-human primates, achieving continuous imaging with 5 s temporal and 7 mm spatial resolution. We successfully detect CBV modulations during alternating cycles of hypercapnia and normocapnia, achieving a CNR of up to 7.9 following activations in the brain region.
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