Abstract
Graph theory analysis of brain connectivity data is a promising tool for studying the function of the healthy and diseased brain. The consistency of resting-state functional MRI (rsfMRI) connectivity measures across multiple scanner types is an important factor in designing multi-institutional research studies and has important implications for the potential use of this technique in a heterogeneous clinical setting. We sought to quantitatively study the interscanner variability of rsfMRI graph theory metrics obtained from healthy volunteers scanned on three different scanner platforms. In this prospective Institutional Review Board approved study, 9 healthy volunteers were enrolled for brain MRI on three 3T scanners (Magnetom Prisma, Skyra, and Trio, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) in three separate scan sessions within approximately 1 week. Standard preprocessing of rsfMRI was performed with SPM12. Subject scans were normalized to Montreal Neurologic Institute (MNI) space, and connectivity of 116 regions-of-interests based on the automated anatomic labeling (AAL) atlas was calculated using Conn toolbox. Whole-network graph theory metrics were calculated using Brain Connectivity Toolbox, and intraclass correlation (ICC) across three scan sessions was assessed. A total of 25 rsfMRI exams were completed in 9 subjects with a median-intersession time of 3 days. Among all three sessions, there was good to excellent agreement in characteristic path length and global efficiency (ICC: .79, .79) and good agreement in the transitivity, local efficiency, and clustering coefficient (ICC=.72, .69, .62). There was high consistency of graph theory metrics of rsfMRI connectivity networks among healthy volunteers scanned on three different generation 3T MRI scanners.
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