fmri terms: hrf and bold
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Hi, kids! My name is Vickie Voxel. I’m
going to tell you about fMRI, HRF &
BOLD.
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Intro to fMRIPart I: HRF & BOLD
Dr. Russell James, Texas Tech University
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An fMRI picture of the brain is made up of
thousands of boxes, called voxels, just like me!
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We voxels are small –
usually about the size of one peppercorn
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Inside each of us
voxels are thousands of neurons
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When a lot of these neurons
start to fire, the body
rushes in oxygen to help
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This rush of oxygen comes through the blood and makes me start to
change color
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As my blood oxygen
increases, I get redder
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And redder
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If this keeps going, I will be
totally red from all of the oxygen in my
blood
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But then, if the neurons don’t keep firing, the
body will stop rushing oxygen
to me
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And my color will start to
return to normal
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I can get a bit blue at the end if my oxygen
drops too low, right before it returns to
normal
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In 20 seconds after the neurons
fired, I will be back to my
normal color again
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This whole color change process is called my
hemodynamic response
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“Hemo” means blood. “Dynamic” means change. So, hemodynamic response is my “blood-change” response.
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SECONDS after neurons fire
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When we model this change with math, we call it a
hemodynamic response function
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SECONDS after neurons fire
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But, saying “hemodynamic
response function” takes too long, so we will just call it
the HRF
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SECONDS after neurons fire
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The HRF
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The fMRI machine can see my color change because blood with a lot of oxygen (red) is less attracted to magnets than blood without much oxygen (pink or blue).
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But, instead of showing pictures in red, pinks, and blues, the fMRI creates black and white pictures.
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Differences in magnetism are shown as shades of light and dark.
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The fMRI machine is measuring a BOLD signal because the color is
BloodOxygenLevelDependent
High blood oxygen
Low blood oxygen
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So, instead of an HRF looking like
this…
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The fMRI shows an HRF that looks
like this…
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Because the color tells us the blood oxygen level, we really don’t need a vertical axis…
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We can just use one line
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16SECONDS after neurons fire
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And, if we always take a picture
every 2 seconds, then we don’t even need
the seconds on the bottom
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16SECONDS after neurons fire
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So, all of our HRF information is shown on the timeline below
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Neuron firing starts
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But, instead of a series of
colors, the fMRI machine gives us
numbers
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Neuron firing starts
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Neuron firing starts
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The fMRI records a number for the
magnetism of each voxel at each time
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If we take a picture every 3 seconds for 7 minutes, we get 140
numbers for each voxel
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And we might have 100,000 or so voxels in the whole brain
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20 images per minute X 7 minutes X 100,000 voxels X 20 people = 280 million data points
We can’t track it by hand!
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So we have to ask the computer to analyze the data
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But the computer needs to know
WHAT to look for and WHEN to look
for it
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So WHAT are we looking for?
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We are looking for changes in the signal that look like this
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We are looking for changes in the signal that look like this
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We are looking for changes in the signal that look like this…
because this looks like an HRF, meaning it was caused by a large
group of neurons firing
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We are looking for changes in the signal that look like this…
because this looks like an HRF, meaning it was caused by a
large group of neurons firing
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WHEN are we looking for this HRF-like signal?
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We are interested in the HRF-like signals that happen right after the
subject experiences something
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Then we can estimate the likelihood that a voxel, or group of
voxels, is responding to the stimulus
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This simple concept can be difficult in practice because:
1. The signal change is small2. The brain is noisy
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This simple concept can be difficult in practice because:
1. The signal change is small2. The brain is noisy
Overcoming these barriers requires:
Good study design +
Good data analysis
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Bye for now!
Next time we will look at how to
create a good study design.
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Intro to fMRIPart I: HRF & BOLD
Dr. Russell James, Texas Tech University