Multisite evaluations of a T 2 ‐relaxation‐under‐spin‐tagging ( TRUST ) MRI technique to measure brain oxygenation

Autor: Shaolin Yang, Trevor Andrews, Jacinda K. Dariotis, Peiying Liu, Ivan E. Dimitrov, Julie A. Dumas, Anand Kumar, Bradley J. Maclntosh, David E. Crane, Alan Tucholka, John E. Desmond, Guanghua Xiao, Hanzhang Lu, Guillaume Gilbert
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 75:680-687
ISSN: 1522-2594
0740-3194
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25627
Popis: Purpose Venous oxygenation (Yv) is an important index of brain physiology and may be indicative of brain diseases. A T2-relaxation-under-spin-tagging (TRUST) MRI technique was recently developed to measure Yv. A multisite evaluation of this technique would be an important step toward broader availability and potential clinical utilizations of Yv measures. Methods TRUST MRI was performed on a total of 250 healthy subjects, 125 from the developer's site and 25 each from five other sites. All sites were equipped with a 3 Tesla (T) MRI of the same vendor. The estimated Yv and the standard error (SE) of the estimation eYv were compared across sites. Results The averaged Yv and eYv across six sites were 61.1% ± 1.4% and 1.3% ± 0.2%, respectively. Multivariate regression analysis showed that the estimated Yv was dependent on age (P = 0.009) but not on performance site. In contrast, the SE of the Yv estimation was site-dependent (P = 0.024) but was less than 1.5%. Further analysis revealed that eYv was positively associated with the amount of subject motion (P
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