A quantitative spatial comparison of high-density diffuse optical tomography and fMRI cortical mapping

Adam T. Eggebrecht, Brian R. White, Silvina L. Ferradal, Chunxiao Chen, Yuxuan Zhan, Abraham Z. Snyder, Hamid Dehghani, Joseph P. Culver

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Abstract

Functional neuroimaging commands a dominant role in current neuroscience research. However its use in bedside clinical and certain neuro-scientific studies has been limited because the current tools lack the combination of being non-invasive, non-ionizing and portable while maintaining moderate resolution and localization accuracy. Optical neuroimaging satisfies many of these requirements, but, until recent advances in high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT), has been hampered by limited resolution. While early results of HD-DOT have been promising, a quantitative voxel-wise comparison and validation of HD-DOT against the gold standard of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been lacking. Herein, we provide such an analysis within the visual cortex using matched visual stimulation protocols in a single group of subjects (n = 5) during separate HD-DOT and fMRI scanning sessions. To attain the needed voxel-to-voxel co-registration between HD-DOT and fMRI image spaces, we implemented subject-specific head modeling that incorporated MRI anatomy, detailed segmentation, and alignment of source and detector positions. Comparisons of the visual responses found an average localization error between HD-DOT and fMRI of 4.4. +/- 1. mm, significantly less than the average distance between cortical gyri. This specificity demonstrates that HD-DOT has sufficient image quality to be useful as a surrogate for fMRI.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1120-1128
Number of pages9
JournalNeuroImage
Volume61
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 16 2012

Keywords

  • Cortex
  • Functional neuroimaging
  • Human
  • Mapping
  • Optical tomography

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