Blood volume and hemoglobin oxygenation response following electrical stimulation of human cortex

Our understanding of perfusion-based human brain mapping techniques relies on a detailed knowledge of the relationship between neuronal activity and cerebrovascular hemodynamics. We performed optical imaging of intrinsic signals at wavelengths sensitive to total hemoglobin (Hbt; which correlate with cerebral blood volume (CBV)) and deoxygenated hemoglobin (Hbr) directly in humans during neurosurgical operations and investigated the optical signals associated with bipolar cortical stimulation at a range of amplitudes. Cortical stimulation elicited a rapid focal increase in Hbr (initial dip) in all subjects. An equally rapid increase in Hbt (<200 ms), with a slightly higher signal-to-noise ratio, was also highly localized for <2 s in spite of the non-columnar nature of the stimulus, after which the signal spread to adjacent gyri. A later decrease in Hbr (>3 s), which is relevant to the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal, was poorly localized. Increasing the stimulus amplitude elicited a linear increase in the area of the optical signal for Hbt and the initial dip but not the late decrease in Hbr, and a nonlinear increase in optical signal amplitude with a plateau effect for initial dip, Hbt and late decrease in Hbr.

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