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Separating slow BOLD from non-BOLD baseline drifts using multi-echo fMRI.

Jennifer W Evans¹, Prantik Kundu¹, Silvina G Horovitz²

¹Section on Functional Imaging Methods, LBC, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

|December 3, 2014

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Multi-echo fMRI can separate slow BOLD and non-BOLD drifts, distinguishing hardware instability from neuronal activity. This technique successfully detected visual signals, improving functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis.

Keywords:

BOLD Denoising Multi-echo Non-BOLD Slow drift fMRI

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Neuroimaging
Biophysics

Background:

Ultraslow functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) fluctuations are typically removed due to hardware instability concerns.
These fluctuations are inseparable from blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals in standard fMRI, limiting analysis.
Neuronal activity can fluctuate over minutes, suggesting some ultraslow drifts may have a neural origin.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate the automatic separation of slow BOLD and non-BOLD drifts using multi-echo fMRI.
To differentiate between hardware-induced and potentially neuronal-originating ultraslow fMRI fluctuations.
To validate the method by detecting a visual signal under controlled conditions.

Main Methods:

Utilized multi-echo fMRI to acquire data sensitive to different BOLD signal components.
Applied multi-echo independent components analysis (ME-ICA) for automated denoising and signal separation.
Designed a visual stimulus with slowly changing contrast (flickering checkerboard) to evoke a detectable BOLD response.

Main Results:

Successfully separated slow BOLD and non-BOLD drifts using ME-ICA.
Demonstrated the detection of a visual signal despite the presence of ultraslow drifts.
Confirmed that ME-ICA can distinguish neuronal-related signals from hardware-related noise.

Conclusions:

Multi-echo fMRI combined with ME-ICA enables the separation of BOLD and non-BOLD ultraslow drifts.
This approach allows for the identification of neuronal signals masked by hardware instability in fMRI.
The findings suggest a novel method for improving the accuracy of resting-state and task-based fMRI analyses.