Detection of resting-state functional connectivity in the lumbar spinal cord with 3T MRI

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Anna Combes
Lipika Narisetti
Anirban Sengupta
Baxter P. Rogers
Grace Sweeney
Logan Prock
Delaney Houston
Colin D. McKnight
John C. Gore
Seth A. Smith
Kristin P. O’Grady
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[1] Vanderbilt University Medical Center,Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science
[2] Vanderbilt University Medical Center,Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
[3] Vanderbilt University,Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Scientific Reports | / 13卷
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Functional MRI (fMRI) of the spinal cord is an expanding area of research with potential to investigate neuronal activity in the central nervous system. We aimed to characterize the functional connectivity features of the human lumbar spinal cord using resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) at 3T, using region-based and data-driven analysis approaches. A 3D multi-shot gradient echo resting-state blood oxygenation level dependent-sensitive rs-fMRI protocol was implemented in 26 healthy participants. Average temporal signal-to-noise ratio in the gray matter was 16.35 ± 4.79 after denoising. Evidence of synchronous signal fluctuations in the ventral and dorsal horns with their contralateral counterparts was observed in representative participants using interactive, exploratory seed-based correlations. Group-wise average in-slice Pearson’s correlations were 0.43 ± 0.17 between ventral horns, and 0.48 ± 0.16 between dorsal horns. Group spatial independent component analysis (ICA) was used to identify areas of coherent activity¸ and revealed components within the gray matter corresponding to anatomical regions. Lower-dimensionality ICA revealed bilateral components corresponding to ventral and dorsal networks. Additional separate ICAs were run on two subsets of the participant group, yielding two sets of components that showed visual consistency and moderate spatial overlap. This work shows feasibility of rs-fMRI to probe the functional features and organization of the lumbar spinal cord.
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