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The physiology of the BOLD signal What do we measure with fMRI?
Methods and Models in fMRI, 19.09.2014
Jakob [email protected]
Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU) Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT)University and ETH Zürich
Many thanks toK. E. Stephan for material
Translational Neuromodeling Unit
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Overview of SPM
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Realignment Smoothing
Normalisation
General linear model
Statistical parametric map (SPM)Image time-series
Parameter estimates
Design matrix
Template
Kernel
Gaussian field theory
p <0.05
Statisticalinference
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Indirect relationship between cognitive processes, neural processing and fMRI
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Control and measure
Try to infer something about
Cognitive processes (Sensory, motor, etc. )
Information processing in ensembles of neurons, e.g. synaptic processes and neural spiking
Measured MRI signal
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Indirect relationship between cognitive processes, neural processing and fMRI
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Control and measure
Try to infer something about
Cognitive processes (Sensory, motor, etc. )
Information processing in ensembles of neurons, e.g. synaptic processes and neural spiking
Changes in blood flow, oxygen concentration, blood volume
Changes in MRI contrasts due to changes in relative hemoglobin concentrations
Measured MRI signal
3. How is the BOLD signalrelated to neural processing?
2. What do we measurewith fMRI?
1. What do we measurewith MRI?
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1. What do we measure with MRI?
Control and measure
Try to infer something about
Cognitive processes (Sensory, motor, etc. )
Information processing in ensembles of neurons, e.g. synaptic processes and neural spiking
Changes in blood flow, oxygen concentration, blood volume
Changes in MRI contrasts due to changes in relative hemoglobin concentrations
Measured MRI signal
1. What do we measurewith MRI?
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1. What do we measure with MRI?
• Magnetic resonance measures thecollective signal of many spins (of protons, i.e. hydrogen atoms).
• The magnetic resonance depends on theproperties of the nucleus and – mostimportant – on its surrounding.
But how does it work?
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Images: www.fmri4newbies.com
Protons align with the magnetic field. We can measure the average magnetization.
Spin = rotation of a proton around some axis
→ magnetic moment
Material in a magnetic field
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Excitation and relaxation of spins
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Movies: K. Prüssmann
Excite sample with RF pulse (radio wave: 42.6MHz/Tesla).
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Excitation and relaxation of spins
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Movies: K. Prüssmann
Measure the emitted radiowave.
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Signal decay depends on tissue
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T1 = time constant of how quickly the protons realign with magnetic field
T2 = time constant of how quickly the protons emit energy when recovering to equilibrium
fat has high signal bright
CSF has low signal dark
fat has low signal dark
CSF has high signal brightImages:
fmri4newbies.com
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Signal decay depends on tissue
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T1 = How quickly do protons realign with magnetic field?
T2 = How quickly do protons emit energy (phase out) when recovering to equilibrium?
fat has high signal bright
CSF has low signal dark
fat has low signal dark
CSF has high signal bright
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T2* magnetization decay
• Decay of transverse magnetization has two factors:1) molecular interactions (tissue properties) (T2)2) local inhomogeneities of the magnetic field
• The combined time constant is called T2*.
• fMRI uses acquisition techniques (e.g. EPI) that are sensitive to changes in T2*.
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The general principle of MRI:– excite spins in static field by RF pulses & detect the emitted RF– use an acquisition technique that is sensitive to local differences in
T1, T2 or T2*– construct a spatial image
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2. What do we measure with fMRI?
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Control and measure
Try to infer something about
Cognitive processes (Sensory, motor, etc. )
Information processing in ensembles of neurons, e.g. synaptic processes and neural spiking
Changes in blood flow, oxygen concentration, blood volume
Changes in MRI contrasts due to changes in relative hemoglobin concentrations
Measured MRI signal
2. What do we measurewith fMRI?
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fMRI uses T2* contrasts
• fMRI uses MRI sequences that measureT2* decay of protons.
• Depends on:• Molecular interaction• Local inhomogeneities of magnetic field
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Functional MRI (fMRI)
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Uses echo planar imaging (EPI) for fast acquisition of T2*-weighted images.
Spatial resolution: 1.5-3 mm (standard 3 T scanner)
Sampling speed: 1 slice: 50-100 ms
Problems:
distortion and signal dropouts in certain regions
sensitive to head motion of subjects during scanning
Requires spatial pre-processing and statistical analysis.
EPI(T2*)
T1
dropout
What makes T2* weighted images “functional”?
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Magnetic properties of hemoglobine
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Magnetic properties of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin
The more oxy-hemoglobin the larger (slower) is T2*
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1/T2*
Source: Thulborn et al, Bioch. Biophys. Acta,1981Ogawa et al, Magn. Res. Med., 1990
Saline
Blood
The signal comes from the susceptibility change due to deoxy-Hbvs. oxy-Hb.
OxyHb (diamagnetic) vs. DeoxyHb (paramagnetic) effects on spin of hydrogen atoms in surrounding
tissue.
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The BOLD effect
• BOLD (Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent) contrast measures inhomogeneities in the magnetic field due to changes in the level of O2 in the blood
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Oxygenated hemoglobin:Diamagnetic (non-magnetic) no signal loss!
Deoxygenated hemoglobin:Paramagnetic (magnetic) signal loss!
100 % O2
Normal air
Source: Ogawa et al, Magn. Res. Med., 1990
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Increased neural activity leads to an over-compensatory increase of regional CBF, which decreases the relative amount of deoxy-Hb
higher T2* signal intensity
The BOLD signal
synaptic activity
CBF
neural metabolism
deoxy-Hb/oxy-Hb
NeurovascularCoupling
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Source, Huettel et al, 2004, fMRI (Book)
neural activity blood flow oxyhemoglobin T2* MR signal
Res
tAc
tivity
oxy-Hb
deoxy-Hb
Increased blood flow
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The hemodynamic response function (HRF)
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sometimes shows initial undershoot initial dip
peaks after 4-6 secs
back to baseline after approx. 30 secs
can vary between regions and subjects
BriefStimulus Undershoot
Initial dip
Peak
Hemodynamic response function = BOLD response to a brief stimulus
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BOLD is a non-linear function of rCBF
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stimulus function
neural state equation
hemodynamic state equations
Source: Stephan et al., NeuroImage, 2007
- Used in DCM.- Blood volume and deoxy-
hemoglobine concentration are important
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F(ax+by)=aF(x)+bF(y)
Source: Huettel et al, 2004, fMRI (Book)
Approximation of HRF with linear transform?
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Source: Dale and Buckner, Hum Brain Mapp, 1997; Boynton et al, J Neurosci, 1996
Although the HRF is non-linear, it is often a good approximation to consider the HRF being a linear transform.
Evidence for linearity from early experiments
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3. How is the BOLD signal related to neural activity?
Control and measure
Try to infer something about
Cognitive processes (Sensory, motor, etc. )
Information processing in ensembles of neurons, e.g. synaptic processes and neural spiking
Changes in blood flow, oxygen concentration, blood volume
Changes in MRI contrasts due to changes in relative hemoglobin concentrations
Measured MRI signal
3. How is the BOLD signalrelated to neural processing?
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3. How is the BOLD signal related to neuralactivity?
Three important questions:1. Is the BOLD signal more strongly related to
neuronal action potentials or to local field potentials (LFP)?
2. Does the BOLD signal reflect energy demands or synaptic activity?
3. What does a negative BOLD signal mean?
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Where does the signal come from: Soma orsynapse?
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Source: http://psychology.uwo.ca/fmri4newbies/Tutorials.html
Soma, neural firing
Synaptic processing
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Moving dot stimuli
Compare average monkey physiology toaverage BOLD signal in humans.
Is the average firing rate of cells in monkeyMT related to the BOLD activitymeasured in humans.
There is a good agreement betweenspiking (firing rate) and BOLD.
Source: Heeger et al, Nat Neurosci, 2000;Rees et al, Nat Neurosci, 2000
Comparing BOLD with electrophysiology –early experiments
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MUA/LFP and BOLD
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Source: Logothetis et al, Nature, 2001
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Local Field Potentials (LFP)• reflect summation of post-synaptic
potentialsMulti-Unit Activity (MUA)• reflects action potentials/spiking
combined BOLD fMRI and electrophysiological recordings → found that BOLD activity is more
closely related to LFPs than MUA
Source: Logothetis et al, Nature, 2001
LFP correlates best with the BOLD-signal
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Dissociation between action potentials and rCBF
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Source: Thomsen et al., J Physiol, 2004Lauritzen & Gold, J Neurosci, 2003
rCBF-increase can beindependent from spikingactivity, but seems to bealways correlated to LFPs
• GABAA antagonist picrotoxineincreased spiking activity withoutincrease in rCBF...
• ... and without disturbingneurovascular coupling per se
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Relation of BOLD and electrophysiology
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Source: Maier et al, Nat Neurosci, 2008
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• The BOLD signal is best correlated topostsynaptic activity (as measured by LFPs)
• In many cases action potentials and LFPs are themselves highly correlated.
• rCBF-increase can be independent from spiking activity, but so far no case has been found where it was independent of LFPs.
• Present conclusion: BOLD more strongly reflects the input to a neuronal population as well as its intrinsic processing, rather than its spiking output.
The BOLD signal is correlated to postsynaptic activity
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3. How is the BOLD signal related to neuralactivity?
Three important questions:1. Is the BOLD signal more strongly related to
neuronal action potentials or to local field potentials (LFP)?
2. Does the BOLD signal reflect energy demands or synaptic activity?
3. What does a negative BOLD signal mean?
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What drives the BOLD signal?
synaptic activity
CBF
neural metabolism
deoxy-Hb/oxy-Hb
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Cortical Metabolism
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http://student.biology.arizona.edu/honors99/group7/glycolysis.jpgBased on: Attwell and McLaughlin, J Cer. Blood Flow Metab, 2001
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Localisation of neuronal energy consumption
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Salt loading in rats and 2-deoxyglucose mapping
→ glucose utilization in the posterior pituitary but not in para-ventricular and supraoptic nuclei (which release ADH & oxytocin at their axonal endings in the posterior pituitary)
→ neuronal energy consumption takes place at the synapses, not at the cell body
Schwartz et al., Science, 1979
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Excitatory action might directly regulate rCBF
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Source: Lauritzen, Nat Rev. Neurosci, 2005
NO (nitric oxid) and PG (prostaglandin) have vasodilatory effects Importance of CalciumBut: Very little contact between neurons and vasculature.
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Glia cells and blood supply
Astrocytes have many contacts withblood vessels.
Glia limitans can regulate blood flow oflarger vessels
Domains of astrocytes are in line with a potential function in regulating bloodflow.
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Source: Iadecola and Nedergaard, Nat Rev Neurosci, 2007
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Source: Iadecola and Nedergaard, Nat Rev Neurosci, 2007
Forward control of blood flow seems to occur via several mechanisms.
To date, two major pathways have been
associated with NO and PG.
Astrocytes are important.
Several pathways for blood flow regulation
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Influence of oxygen on blood control
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O2 levels determine whether synaptic activity leads to arteriolar vasodilation or vasoconstriction (via prostaglandines)
Gordon et al. 2008, Nature
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3. How is the BOLD signal related to neuralactivity?
Three important questions:1. Is the BOLD signal more strongly related to
neuronal action potentials or to local field potentials (LFP)?
2. Does the BOLD signal reflect energy demands or synaptic activity?
3. What does a negative BOLD signal mean?
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Shmuel et al., Nat Neurosci, 2006
Negative BOLD is correlated with decreases in LFPs
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Impact of inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) on blood flow
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Source: Lauritzen, Nat Rev. Neurosci, 2005
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Excitatory-inhibitory networks and BOLD
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Source: Logothetis, Nature, 2008
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BOLD Summary
• The BOLD signal seems to be more strongly related to LFPs than to spiking activity. - The BOLD signal may primarily reflect the input to a neuronal
population as well as its intrinsic processing.
• Blood flow seems to be controlled in a forward fashion by postsynaptic processes leading to the release of vasodilators (e.g., NO and prostaglandines).
• Negative BOLD signals may result from IPSPs.
• Various drugs can interfere with the BOLD response.
• We are far from completely understanding neurovascular coupling!
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Summary Overview
1. MRI measures the decay ofmagnetization of protons which dependson tissue properties.
2. fMRI measures changes in magneticproperties due to the ratio of oxy- vs. deoxy-hemoglobin in cerebral blood.
3. The BOLD signal is locally best correlatedto the local field potential, which is itselfhighly correlated to spiking.
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Thank you!
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More Information
• McRobbie et al, From Picture to Proton, Cambridge Univesrity Press, 2007
• Huettel et al, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Sinauer, 2004
• Logothetis and Wandell, Ann. Rev. Neurosci., 2004 (BOLD in general)
• Logothetis et al, Nature, 2001 (LFP vs. BOLD)
• Logothetis, Nature, 2008 (What can we do with BOLD? What not?)
• Lauritzen, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2005 (Calcium, Bold in Cerebellum)
• Iadecola and Needergard, Nat. Neurosci., 2007 (Glia cells)
• http://psychology.uwo.ca/fmri4newbies/Tutorials.html
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