A critical gap remains in our understanding of oxygen metabolism, delivery, and reserve, both at rest and during metabolic activation states in healthy and diseased brain. Available imaging techniques lack spatial and temporal resolution to assess distribution of cerebral tissue oxygenation (PO2) and O2 consumption (CMRO2) with adequate level of detail, and to unravel their dynamic changes within microvascular domains. We propose to develop and validate a new microscopic imaging method of resting state CMRO2 in small animal models, and advance it to enable rapid high spatial resolution imaging of CMRO2 and PO2. The new technology will enable regional estimation of CMRO2 at a rate of ~1 Hz together with acquisition of detailed tissue PO2 maps, which is essential for advancing our understanding of O2 delivery and consumption in the brain.
In Aim1 we will develop and validate high-resolution resting state CMRO2 imaging method in small rodents based on two- photon PO2 microscopy. This new method will measure resting state regional CMRO2 based on tissue PO2 profiles around cortical penetrating arterioles.
In Aim 2 we will advance new CMRO2 imaging method by improving a multifocal, frequency modulated, two-photon phosphorescence lifetime imaging to allow practical rapid PO2 imaging in optically scattering brain tissue, and to improve the speed of CMRO2 measurements up to 100-fold (approaching 1 Hz).
In Aim 3 we will quantify regional CMRO2 during physiological and pathological perturbations. We will test the hypothesis that transient physiological or pathological neuronal activation in a brain affected by ischemia leads to a mismatch between O2 metabolism and supply and hypoxia within microvascular domains - a mechanism that may underlie lesion growth in stroke and other brain injury states as well as progressive neurodegeneration observed in microvasculopathies. This technology will have broad utility in quantifying metabolism and oxygenation in cerebral microvascular domains in animal models of brain disorders that will dramatically advance our understanding of pathophysiology and lead to novel treatment strategies in important clinical problems such as chronic cerebral hypoperfusion, stroke, small vessel disease, and AD dementia.

Public Health Relevance

High spatiotemporal resolution microscopy imaging of cerebral oxygen metabolism and tissue oxygenation will enable quantitative characterization of the influences of oxygen supply and consumption on availability of oxygen in microvascular domains. This will be an imaging approach that will have broad utility in quantifying the metabolism and oxygenation in cerebral micro domains in animal models of brain disorders that will dramatically advance our understanding of pathophysiology and lead to novel treatment strategies in important clinical problems such as stroke, chronic cerebral hypoperfusion, small vessel disease, and AD dementia. The utility will be applied to test the hypothesis that transient physiological or pathological neuronal activation in ischemic brain leads to a mismatch between oxygen supply and consumption and hypoxia within microvascular domains.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01NS091230-02
Application #
9103239
Study Section
Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Imaging Technologies Study Section (NOIT)
Program Officer
Babcock, Debra J
Project Start
2015-07-15
Project End
2020-05-31
Budget Start
2016-06-01
Budget End
2017-05-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2016
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department
Type
DUNS #
073130411
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
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