eprintid: 10088501 rev_number: 28 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/85/01 datestamp: 2020-01-06 13:18:58 lastmod: 2022-01-25 23:30:06 status_changed: 2020-01-06 13:18:58 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: De Blasi, B creators_name: Menegaz, G creators_name: Barnes, A creators_name: De Vita, E creators_name: Storti, SF creators_name: Galazzo, IB creators_name: Koepp, M title: Perfusion-based brain connectivity: PASL vs PCASL ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D07 divisions: F81 divisions: C10 divisions: D17 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F43 keywords: ASL, PASL, pCASL, CBF, Functional Connectivity note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) is a magnetic resonance imaging technique which provides a more direct measure of neural activity as compared to blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) contrast. While it has been used for years for perfusion quantification, ASL has recently been adopted for functional connectivity (FC) analyses. However, the impact of the different ASL schemes on connectivity estimates remains to be fully investigated. In this work, pulsed and pseudo continuous ASL (PASL/pCASL) were compared in terms of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and FC measures. In line with literature, higher CBF and increased spatial signal-to-noise ratio were reported for pCASL, as compared to PASL. In terms of FC, pCASL was able to more reliably recover the main networks and showed higher correlations between brain areas. These preliminary results suggest pCASL to provide reliable and stable results, not only for CBF estimation but also for FC analyses. date: 2019-11-18 date_type: published publisher: IEEE official_url: https://doi.org/10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8903183 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1732683 doi: 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8903183 isbn_13: 9789082797039 lyricists_name: Barnes, Anna lyricists_name: De Blasi, Bianca lyricists_name: Koepp, Matthias lyricists_id: APBAR63 lyricists_id: BDEBL81 lyricists_id: MJKOE13 actors_name: De Blasi, Bianca actors_id: BDEBL81 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: European Signal Processing Conference volume: 2019-S place_of_pub: A Coruna, Spain, Spain event_title: 2019 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) issn: 2219-5491 book_title: Proceedings of the 2019 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) citation: De Blasi, B; Menegaz, G; Barnes, A; De Vita, E; Storti, SF; Galazzo, IB; Koepp, M; (2019) Perfusion-based brain connectivity: PASL vs PCASL. In: Proceedings of the 2019 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE: A Coruna, Spain, Spain. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10088501/1/EUSIPCO2019_ASL_Reviewed-v2-Checked_PID5988075.pdf