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Twelve studies used alternative methods of LA indexation, of which nine reported allometric indices. Seven of the included studies reported LA size by obesity class, of which six reported alternative indices. Correlation coefficients plotted for indexed LA size against absolute measured LA size showed that allometric indices (specifically to height) were more likely to maintain proportionality to body size compared with isometric indices such as BSA. Allometric indices were less likely to overcorrect for body size compared with isometric indices.

Compared with isometric indexation to BSA, allometric indexation (specifically to height) improves scaling of LA volumes to maintain proportionality and avoid overcorrection for body size.
Compared with isometric indexation to BSA, allometric indexation (specifically to height) improves scaling of LA volumes to maintain proportionality and avoid overcorrection for body size.Blood-based kinetic analysis of PET data relies on an accurate estimate of the arterial plasma input function (PIF). An alternative to invasive measurements from arterial sampling is an image-derived input function (IDIF). However, an IDIF provides the whole blood radioactivity concentration, rather than the required free tracer radioactivity concentration in plasma. To estimate the tracer PIF, we corrected an IDIF from the carotid artery with estimates of plasma parent fraction (PF) and plasma-to-whole blood (PWB) ratio obtained from five venous samples. We compared the combined IDIF+venous approach to gold standard data from arterial sampling in 10 healthy volunteers undergoing [18F]GE-179 brain PET imaging of the NMDA receptor. Arterial and venous PF and PWB ratio estimates determined from 7 patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) were also compared to assess the potential effect of medication. There was high agreement between areas under the curves of the estimates of PF (r = 0.99, p less then 0.001), o arterial sampling for quantification of [18F]GE-179 VT.Theoretical work, supported by electrophysiological evidence, asserts that a balance between excitation and inhibition (E/I) is critical for healthy brain function. In magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) studies, the ratio of excitatory (glutamate) and inhibitory (γ-aminobutyric acid, GABA) neurotransmitters is often used as a proxy for this E/I balance. Recent MRS work found a positive correlation between GABA+ and Glx (glutamate+glutamine) in medial parietal cortex, providing validation for this proxy and supporting the link between the E/I balance observed in electrophysiology and that detected with MRS. Here we assess the same relationship, between GABA+ and Glx, in visual and motor cortices of male and female human participants. We find moderate to strong evidence that there is no positive correlation between these neurotransmitters in either location. We show this holds true when controlling for a range of other factors (i.e., demographics, signal quality, tissue composition, other neurochemicals) and regardless of the state of neural activity (i.e., resting/active). These results show that there is no brain-wide balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters and indicates a dissociation between the E/I balance observed in electrophysiological work and the ratio of MRS-detected neurotransmitters.Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast at a sub-millimeter scale is a promising technique to probe neural activity at the level of cortical layers. While gradient echo (GRE) BOLD sequences exhibit the highest sensitivity, their signal is confounded by unspecific extravascular (EV) and intravascular (IV) effects of large intracortical ascending veins and pial veins leading to a downstream blurring effect of local signal changes. In contrast, spin echo (SE) fMRI promises higher specificity towards signal changes near the microvascular compartment. However, the T2-weighted signal is typically sampled with a gradient echo readout imposing additional T2'-weighting. In this work, we used a T2-prepared (T2-prep) sequence with short GRE readouts to investigate its capability to acquire laminar fMRI data during a visual task in humans at 7 T. By varying the T2-prep echo time (TEprep) and acquiring multiple gradient echoes (TEGRE) per excitation, we studied hasing but that it is likely caused by extravascular effects of the intracortical and pial veins. We conclude that even for TEGRE as short as 2.3 ms, the T2'-weighting added to the T2-weighting is enough to dramatically affect the laminar specificity of the BOLD signal change. However, the bulk of this corruption stems from CSF partial volume effects which can in principle be addressed by increasing the spatial resolution of the acquisition.The field of cognitive neuroscience is weighing evidence about whether to move from the current standard field strength of 3 Tesla (3T) to ultra-high field (UHF) of 7T and above. The present study contributes to the evidence by comparing a computational cognitive neuroscience paradigm at 3T and 7T. The goal was to evaluate the practical effects, i.e. model predictive power, of field strength on a numerosity task using accessible pre-processing and analysis tools. Previously, using 7T functional magnetic resonance imaging and biologically-inspired analyses, i.e. population receptive field modelling, we discovered topographical organization of numerosity-selective neural populations in human parietal cortex. Here we show that these topographic maps are also detectable at 3T. However, averaging of many more functional runs was required at 3T to reliably reconstruct numerosity maps. On average, one 7T run had about four times the model predictive power of one 3T run. Azaindole 1 We believe that this amount of scanning would have made the initial discovery of the numerosity maps on 3T highly infeasible in practice. Therefore, we suggest that the higher signal-to-noise ratio and signal sensitivity of UHF MRI is necessary to build mechanistic models of the organization and function of our cognitive abilities in individual participants.
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