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ArticleImaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2025

Modeling dynamic inflow effects in fMRI to quantify cerebrospinal fluid flow.

Baarbod Ashenagar, Daniel E P Gomez, Laura D Lewis

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Article in Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors.

Baarbod AshenagarDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Daniel E P GomezDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Laura D LewisDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.

Funding

Viral Tool Development Core: Visualization and manipulation of brain fluid dynamics by recombinant viral vectorsU19NS128613 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Maiken Nedergaard · 2022 to 2026
$13.6M
Neuroimaging the impact of respiration and respiratory-gated neuromodulation on human glymphatic physiologyR01AT011429 · NCCIH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Laura Diane Lewis · 2021 to 2026
$3.7M
Sleep-dependent modulation of cerebrospinal fluid flow in aging and across genetic risk for Alzheimers diseaseR01AG070135 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LEWIS, LAURA DIANE · 2021 to 2025
$3.3M
NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT011429NIA NIH HHS R01 AG070135NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS128613
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow in the brain is tightly regulated and essential for brain health, and imaging techniques are needed to quantitatively establish the properties of this flow system. Flow-sensitive fMRI has recently emerged as a tool to measure large scale CSF flow dynamics with high sensitivity and temporal resolution; however, the measured signal is not quantitative. Here, we developed a dynamic model to simulate fMRI inflow signals based on time-varying flow velocities. We validated the model in both human and phantom data, and used it to identify important properties of the fMRI inflow signal that inform how the signal should be interpreted. Additionally, we developed a physics-based deep learning framework to invert the model, which enables direct estimation of velocity using fMRI inflow data. This work allows new quantitative information to be obtained from fMRI, which will enable neuroimaging researchers to take advantage of the high sensitivity, high temporal resolution, and wide availability of fMRI to obtain flow signals that are physically interpretable.

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cerebrospinal fluidcomputational modelingflow imagingfunctional MRIneurofluidsvelocity

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PMID40800831
PMCPMC12319909

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