动物模型中功能磁共振成像期间的脑电图监测。
EEG monitoring during functional MRI in animal models.
作者信息
Mirsattari Seyed M, Ives John R, Leung L Stan, Menon Ravi S
机构信息
Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
出版信息
Epilepsia. 2007;48 Suppl 4:37-46. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01240.x.
Despite its excellent temporal resolution, electroencephalogram (EEG) has poor spatial resolution to study the participation of different brain areas in epileptic discharges, and the propagation of seizures to subcortical areas is not revealed. Furthermore, EEG provides no information about metabolic changes that occur in the brain before and during the epileptic discharges. Thus, monitoring variations in blood flow and oxygenation in response to epileptic discharges can provide additional complementary information. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology can be used to study the hemodynamic changes associated with interictal epileptiform discharges or epileptic seizures (i.e., before, during or after them) in experimental animal models and may noninvasively monitor these changes over time. Blood oxygenation level-dependent fMRI has superior spatial resolution compared with other functional imaging modalities and utilizes changes in local magnetic field properties to measure the amount of deoxyhemoglobin in each brain areas as an indicator of brain activity. Simultaneous recording of EEG and fMRI is required to achieve this objective. This article describes methods of acquiring and monitoring EEG during fMRI studies in experimental animals. Particular attention will be paid to methods used to eliminate artifacts induced in the acquired magnetic resonance images by EEG equipment and MR-related artifacts in EEG recordings.
尽管脑电图(EEG)具有出色的时间分辨率,但在研究不同脑区参与癫痫放电方面,其空间分辨率较差,且癫痫发作向皮质下区域的传播情况也未被揭示。此外,EEG无法提供癫痫放电之前及期间大脑中发生的代谢变化信息。因此,监测癫痫放电时的血流和氧合变化可提供额外的补充信息。功能磁共振成像(fMRI)技术可用于研究实验动物模型中与发作间期癫痫样放电或癫痫发作(即发作前、发作期间或发作后)相关的血流动力学变化,并可随时间对这些变化进行无创监测。与其他功能成像方式相比,基于血氧水平依赖的fMRI具有更高的空间分辨率,并利用局部磁场特性的变化来测量每个脑区脱氧血红蛋白的含量,以此作为大脑活动的指标。为实现这一目标,需要同时记录EEG和fMRI。本文介绍了在实验动物的fMRI研究过程中采集和监测EEG的方法。将特别关注用于消除EEG设备在采集的磁共振图像中产生的伪影以及EEG记录中与磁共振相关伪影的方法。