COHERENT HEMODYNAMICS SPECTROSCOPY BASED ON A PACED BREATHING PARADIGM-REVISITED

A novel hemodynamic model has been recently introduced,which provides analytical relation-ships between the changes in cerebral blood volume(CBV),cerebral blood flow(CBF),andcerebral metabolic rate of oxy gen(CMRO2),and associat ed changes in the tissue concentrationsof oxy-and deoxy-hemoglobin(AO and AD)measured with near-infrared,spectroscopy(NIRS)[S.Fantini,Neuroimage 85,202-221(2014)].This novel model can be applied tomeasurements of the amplit ude and phase of induced hemodynamic oscillations as a function ofthe frequency of oscillation,realizing the novel technique of coherent hemodynamics spectroscopy(CHS)[S.Fantini,Neuroimage 85,202-221(2014);M.L.Pierro et al.,Neuroimage 85,222-233(2014)]:In a previous work,,we have demonstrated an in vivo application of CiHS on hunanSubjects during paced breat hing[M.L.Pierro et al,Neuroimage 85,222-233(2014)].In thiswork,we present a new analysis of the collected data duringpaced breat hing based on a slightlyrevised formulation of the hemodynamic model and ann efficient fitting procedure.While we haveinitially treated all 12 model parameindeependent,we have found that,in this new in-plementation of CHS,the number of independent is eight.In this article,we identifythe eight independent model parameters and,we show that our previous results are consistentwith the new formulation,once the individual parameters of the earlier analysis are combinedinto the new set of independent parameters.