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Dynamic Oxygen-Enhanced MRI of Cerebrospinal Fluid

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  • Taha M Mehemed
  • Yasutaka Fushimi
  • Tomohisa Okada
  • Akira Yamamoto
  • Mitsunori Kanagaki
  • Aki Kido
  • Koji Fujimoto
  • Naotaka Sakashita
  • Kaori Togashi

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Oxygen causes an increase in the longitudinal relaxation rate of tissues through its T1-shortening effect owing to its paramagnetic properties. Due to such effects, MRI has been used to study oxygen-related signal intensity changes in various body parts including cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) space. Oxygen enhancement of CSF has been mainly studied using MRI sequences with relatively longer time resolution such as FLAIR, and T1 value calculation. In this study, fifteen healthy volunteers were scanned using fast advanced spin echo MRI sequence with and without inversion recovery pulse in order to dynamically track oxygen enhancement of CSF. We also focused on the differences of oxygen enhancement at sulcal and ventricular CSF. Our results revealed that CSF signal after administration of oxygen shows rapid signal increase in both sulcal CSF and ventricular CSF on both sequences, with statistically significant predominant increase in sulcal CSF compared with ventricular CSF. CSF is traditionally thought to mainly form from the choroid plexus in the ventricles and is absorbed at the arachnoid villi, however, it is also believed that cerebral arterioles contribute to the production and absorption of CSF, and controversy remains in terms of the precise mechanism. Our results demonstrated rapid oxygen enhancement in sulcal CSF, which may suggest inhaled oxygen may diffuse into sulcal CSF space rapidly probably due to the abundance of pial arterioles on the brain sulci.

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  • Taha M Mehemed & Yasutaka Fushimi & Tomohisa Okada & Akira Yamamoto & Mitsunori Kanagaki & Aki Kido & Koji Fujimoto & Naotaka Sakashita & Kaori Togashi, 2014. "Dynamic Oxygen-Enhanced MRI of Cerebrospinal Fluid," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(6), pages 1-6, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0100723
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100723
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    1. Marianne Schmid Daners & Verena Knobloch & Michaela Soellinger & Peter Boesiger & Burkhardt Seifert & Lino Guzzella & Vartan Kurtcuoglu, 2012. "Age-Specific Characteristics and Coupling of Cerebral Arterial Inflow and Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(5), pages 1-10, May.
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