Abstract
With the growing recognition of the complexity of neurovascular coupling, research has focused on the “neurovascular unit”, a close association between neurons, astrocytes and blood vessels. A number of experimental tools have been developed for probing the neurovascular unit in animal models, providing the potential for a much deeper understanding of these fundamental physiological mechanisms. In this chapter, we review some of the available experimental and computational methods and present a multi-level conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting a wide range of experimental measurements. We then discuss our working hypotheses regarding the regulation of blood flow and neurophysiological correlates of fMRI signals. Finally, we discuss how multimodal imaging, along with valid physiological models, can ultimately be used to obtain quantitative estimates of physiological parameters in health and disease and provide an outlook for the future directions in neurovascular research.
Keywords
- Imaging
- Neurovascular
- Neurometabolic
- CBF
- CMRO2
- LFP
- CSD
- MUA
- fMRI
- BOLD
- Optical
- Microscopy
- Hemodynamic
- Neurovascular unit
- Extracellular potential
- Forward modeling
- Laminar population analysis
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The authors would like you to acknowledge Klas M. Pettersen, Henrik Linden, Ivan C. Teng and Peifang Tian for help with making some of the figures, and the financial support from the following NIH grants: R01NS051188, R01NS057198, R21EB009118 (to Anna Devor), R01EB000790 (to Anders M. Dale), R01NS057476 (to David A. Boas) and R01 NS036722 (to Richard R. Buxton) and Research Council of Norway (eVITA, FRIBIOMOL to Gaute T. Einevoll).
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Devor, A., Boas, D.A., Einevoll, G.T., Buxton, R.B., Dale, A.M. (2012). Neuronal Basis of Non-Invasive Functional Imaging: From Microscopic Neurovascular Dynamics to BOLD fMRI. In: Choi, IY., Gruetter, R. (eds) Neural Metabolism In Vivo. Advances in Neurobiology, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1788-0_15
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