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Chronic assessment of cerebral hemodynamics during rat forepaw electrical stimulation using functional ultrasound imaging.

Abstract：

:Functional ultrasound imaging is a method recently developed to assess brain activity via hemodynamics in rodents. Doppler ultrasound signals allow the measurement of cerebral blood volume (CBV) and red blood cells' (RBCs') velocity in small vessels. However, this technique originally requires performing a large craniotomy that limits its use to acute experiments only. Moreover, a detailed description of the hemodynamic changes that underlie functional ultrasound imaging has not been described but is essential for a better interpretation of neuroimaging data. To overcome the limitation of the craniotomy, we developed a dedicated thinned skull surgery for chronic imaging. This procedure did not induce brain inflammation nor neuronal death as confirmed by immunostaining. We successfully acquired both high-resolution images of the microvasculature and functional movies of the brain hemodynamics on the same animal at 0, 2, and 7 days without loss of quality. Then, we investigated the spatiotemporal evolution of the CBV hemodynamic response function (HRF) in response to sensory-evoked electrical stimulus (1 mA) ranging from 1 (200 μs) to 25 pulses (5s). Our results indicate that CBV HRF parameters such as the peak amplitude, the time to peak, the full width at half-maximum and the spatial extent of the activated area increase with stimulus duration. Functional ultrasound imaging was sensitive enough to detect hemodynamic responses evoked by only a single pulse stimulus. We also observed that the RBC velocity during activation could be separated in two distinct speed ranges with the fastest velocities located in the upper part of the cortex and slower velocities in deeper layers. For the first time, functional ultrasound imaging demonstrates its potential to image brain activity chronically in small animals and offers new insights into the spatiotemporal evolution of cerebral hemodynamics.

journal_name

Neuroimage

journal_title

NeuroImage

authors

Urban A,Mace E,Brunner C,Heidmann M,Rossier J,Montaldo G

doi

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.063

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-11-01 00:00:00

pages

138-49

eissn

1053-8119

issn

1095-9572

pii

S1053-8119(14)00540-0

journal_volume

101

pub_type

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Chronic assessment of cerebral hemodynamics during rat forepaw electrical stimulation using functional ultrasound imaging.