Arterial occlusion duration affects the cuff-induced hyperemic response in skeletal muscle BOLD perfusion imaging as shown in young healthy subjects

The objective was to explore the robustness of this technique and its sensitivity to the occlusion duration.MATERIALS AND METHODS: BOLD images were acquired at 3 T in 14 healthy volunteers. [Formula: see text]-imaging with 5- and 1.5-min occlusions were acquired and several semi-quantitative BOLD parameters were derived from ROI-based [Formula: see text]-time curves. Differences in parameters from the two different occlusion durations were evaluated in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles using non-parametrical tests. Intra- and inter-scan repeatability were evaluated with coefficient of variation.RESULTS: Longer occlusion duration resulted in an increased hyperemic signal effect yielding significantly different values (p < 0.05) in gastrocnemius for all parameters describing the hyperemic response, and in soleus for two of these parameters. Specifically, 5-min occlusion yielded steeper hyperemic upslope in gastrocnemius (41.0%; p < 0.05) and soleus (59.7%; p = 0.03), shorter time to half peak in gastrocnemius (46.9%; p = 0.00008) and soleus (33.5%; p = 0.0003), and shorter time to peak in gastrocnemius (13.5%; p = 0.02). Coefficients of variation were lower than percentage differences that were found significant.DISCUSSION: Findings show that the occlusion duration indeed influences the hyperemic response and thus should play a part in future methodological developments.PMID:37330431 | DOI:10.1007/s10334-023-01105-y
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