ePoster

Advancing in-vivo brain vasculature imaging: Super-resolution 3D ultrasound localization microscopy of the mouse brain and in non-human primate using RCA probes

Adrien Bertolo, Jeremy Ferrier, Tanguy Delaporte, Julien Claron, Oscar Demeulenaere, Mickael Tanter, Pierre Pouget, Bruno Osmanski, Mathieu Pernot, Thomas Deffieux
FENS Forum 2024(2024)
Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, Vienna, Austria

Conference

FENS Forum 2024

Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, Vienna, Austria

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Authors & Affiliations

Adrien Bertolo, Jeremy Ferrier, Tanguy Delaporte, Julien Claron, Oscar Demeulenaere, Mickael Tanter, Pierre Pouget, Bruno Osmanski, Mathieu Pernot, Thomas Deffieux

Abstract

3D ultrasound localization microscopy (3D-ULM) allows in vivo quantification of blood vessel velocities in the mouse brain using matrix arrays, but it requires complex electronics, and the field of view remains limited [1]. Here, we investigate how low channel count Row-Column Addressing (RCA) probes allow 3D-ULM to be performed in the whole mouse brain non-invasively and in the visual cortex of a non-human primate after craniotomy.An IcoPrime 4D-RCA probe (80+80 elements, 15 MHz, pitch 0.11 mm, Iconeus) was driven by an Iconeus One scanner. For the mouse experiment, the probe was mounted on a 4-axis motor stage, and we used a sequence of 14+14 plane waves transmitted at 28 kHz for 0.5 s (400 repetitions at 1 Hz). Contrast agent (Sonovue) was injected in three boluses of 80 µL each. For the non-human primate experiment, the probe was mounted on an articulated arm, and we used 12+12 plane waves transmitted at 20 kHz for 0.4s (200 repetitions at 0.5 Hz) while maintaining a continuous perfusion of Sonovue. XDoppler beamforming [2], microbubble localization and tracking were applied to the two resulting radiofrequency datasets.Vascular skeletons were estimated and filtered using graph analysis tools [3]. Per-region segment features such as segment radius, length, velocity, and flowrate were extracted thanks to Allen-based registration (mouse) or manual segmentation (primate).Our results demonstrate that RCA is an efficient way to perform large field-of-view 3D ULM with reduced complexity, enabling in-vivo cerebral blood flow quantification at microscopic level, and could be extended to other models.

Unique ID: fens-24/advancing-in-vivo-brain-vasculature-dd23095f