Neonatal brain resting-state functional connectivity imaging modalities

Ali-Reza Mohammadi-Nejad , Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh (1, 2) , Mahlega S. Hassanpour , Fabrice Wallois (1, 3) , Otto Muzik , Christos Papadelis , Anne Hansen , Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh (4, 5) , Juri Gelovani , Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki

1 GRAMFC - Groupe de Recherche sur l'Analyse Multimodale de la Fonction Cérébrale - UMR INSERM_S 1105
2 Explorations fonctionnelles du système nerveux pédiatrique
3 CHU Amiens-Picardie
4 CIPCE - Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence - University of Tehran
5 Henry Ford Health System

Infancy is the most critical period in human brain development. Studies demonstrate that subtle brain abnormalities during this state of life may greatly affect the developmental processes of the newborn infants. One of the rapidly developing methods for early characterization of abnormal brain development is functional connectivity of the brain at rest. While the majority of resting-state studies have been conducted using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), there is clear evidence that resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) can also be evaluated using other imaging modalities. The aim of this review is to compare the advantages and limitations of different modalities used for the mapping of infants' brain functional connectivity at rest. In addition, we introduce photoacoustic tomography, a novel functional neuroimaging modality, as a complementary modality for functional mapping of infants' brain. (c) 2018 Published by Elsevier GmbH.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Ali-Reza Mohammadi-Nejad, Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh, Mahlega S. Hassanpour, Fabrice Wallois, Otto Muzik, et al.. Neonatal brain resting-state functional connectivity imaging modalities. Photoacoustics, 2018, 10, pp.1-19. ⟨10.1016/j.pacs.2018.01.003⟩. ⟨hal-03603373⟩