@inproceedings{77a00a0f8be24a40888c12e2cc879481,
title = "The cerebral vascular enhancement effect in establishing diffusion tensor imaging protocols",
abstract = "The focus of this paper is to investigate the significance of the cerebral vascular enhancement effect on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) datasets and in establishing appropriate DTI imaging protocols. Two DTI scans are performed on each subject during the same imaging session. Between DTI scans, 22 minutes of a visual tracking experiment and 3 minutes of an alternating breath hold experiment are performed. These functional tasks, in particular the breath hold task, increase the blood flow and volume to study the vascular enhancement between the two DTI scans. Data collected from four healthy control subjects are analyzed in DTI Studio and quantified using fractional anisotropy. ROIs were selected in close proximity to the blood supply from three main cerebral arteries (posterior, middle, and anterior). Preliminary results suggest that there is a significant cerebral vascular enhancement effect between a DTI scan performed at the beginning of the experiment versus a DTI scan performed at the end of the experiment.",
keywords = "BOLD signal, Cerebral arteries, Cerebral blood flow (CBF), Cerebral blood volume (CBV), DTI studio, Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), Vascular enhancement (VE)",
author = "Rajbir Jaswal and Alvarez, \{Tara L.\} and Yelda Alkan and Eun Kim and Biswal, \{Bharat B.\}",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2009 ; Conference date: 02-11-2009 Through 05-11-2009",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ICTAI.2009.103",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424456192",
series = "Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "771--775",
booktitle = "ICTAI 2009 - 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence",
address = "United States",
}