Assessing Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Carotid Steno-Occlusive Disease Using MRI BOLD and ASL Techniques

Figure 1

Linear correlation between BOLD signal change and ΔEtCO₂ in brain regions supplied by the three main cerebral arteries (anterior: ACA, middle: MCA, and posterior: PCA), for a group of healthy subjects who underwent CO₂ inhalation (𝑟²=0.73±0.04). Note that the highest increases in BOLD signal were observed in region areas supplies by the posterior cerebral artery (PCA: black squares), and that the lowest BOLD signal amplitudes were observed in areas supplied by the middle cerebral artery (MCA: gray squares).