Title
fMRI hemodynamics accurately reflects neuronal timing in the human brain measured by MEG.
Abstract
Neuronal activation sequence information is essential for understanding brain functions. Extracting such timing information from blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) fMRI is confounded by interregional neurovascular differences and poorly understood relations between BOLD and electrophysiological response delays. Here, we recorded whole-head BOLD fMRI at 100ms resolution and magnetoencephalography (MEG) during a visuomotor reaction-time task. Both methods detected the same activation sequence across five regions, from visual towards motor cortices, with linearly correlated interregional BOLD and MEG response delays. The smallest significant interregional BOLD delay was 100ms; all delays ≥400ms were significant. Switching the order of external events reversed the sequence of BOLD activations, indicating that interregional neurovascular differences did not confound the results. This may open new avenues for using fMRI to follow rapid activation sequences in the brain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.017
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Neurovascular coupling,Hemodynamics,Neuronal timing,Inverse imaging,Latency,BOLD
Brain mapping,Hemodynamics,Developmental psychology,Neuroscience,Photic Stimulation,Psychology,Human brain,Blood oxygenation level dependent,Electrophysiology,Magnetoencephalography
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
78
1053-8119
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
12
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fa-Hsuan Lin124624.33
Thomas Witzel237428.70
Tommi Raij3233.86
Jyrki Ahveninen48915.15
Kevin Wen-Kai Tsai5494.60
Ying-Hua Chu6332.99
Wei-Tang Chang7727.68
Aapo Nummenmaa825619.18
Jonathan R. Polimeni997250.64
Wen-Jui Kuo1016320.42
Jen-Chuen Hsieh1118827.76
Bruce R Rosen12161.61
John W Belliveau1325638.29