eprintid: 10084671 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/46/71 datestamp: 2019-11-01 13:53:00 lastmod: 2021-09-27 22:47:17 status_changed: 2019-11-01 13:53:00 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Dragojević, T creators_name: Vidal Rosas, EE creators_name: Hollmann, JL creators_name: Culver, JP creators_name: Justicia, C creators_name: Durduran, T title: High-density speckle contrast optical tomography of cerebral blood flow response to functional stimuli in the rodent brain ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F42 keywords: blood or tissue constituent monitoring, functional monitoring and imaging, medical and biological imaging, speckle imaging note: Copyright © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. abstract: Noninvasive, three-dimensional, and longitudinal imaging of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in small animal models and ultimately in humans has implications for fundamental research and clinical applications. It enables the study of phenomena such as brain development and learning and the effects of pathologies, with a clear vision for translation to humans. Speckle contrast optical tomography (SCOT) is an emerging optical method that aims to achieve this goal by directly measuring three-dimensional blood flow maps in deep tissue with a relatively inexpensive and simple system. High-density SCOT is developed to follow CBF changes in response to somatosensory cortex stimulation. Measurements are carried out through the intact skull on the rat brain. SCOT is able to follow individual trials in each brain hemisphere, where signal averaging resulted in comparable, cortical images to those of functional magnetic resonance images in spatial extent, location, and depth. Sham stimuli are utilized to demonstrate that the observed response is indeed due to local changes in the brain induced by forepaw stimulation. In developing and demonstrating the method, algorithms and analysis methods are developed. The results pave the way for longitudinal, nondestructive imaging in preclinical rodent models that can readily be translated to the human brain. date: 2019-10 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.6.4.045001 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub pmcid: PMC6782685 language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1712560 doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.6.4.045001 pii: 19070R lyricists_name: Vidal Rosas, Ernesto lyricists_id: EEVID97 actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic actors_id: DAALL44 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Neurophotonics volume: 6 number: 4 article_number: 045001 event_location: United States citation: Dragojević, T; Vidal Rosas, EE; Hollmann, JL; Culver, JP; Justicia, C; Durduran, T; (2019) High-density speckle contrast optical tomography of cerebral blood flow response to functional stimuli in the rodent brain. Neurophotonics , 6 (4) , Article 045001. 10.1117/1.NPh.6.4.045001 <https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.6.4.045001>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10084671/7/Vidal%20Rosas_045001_1.pdf