@article {Peacock:2016:2637-8329:213, title = "Use of a Simple Breath-Holding Task for Cerebrovascular Reactivity Scans in Clinical Functional MR Imaging", journal = "Neurographics", parent_itemid = "infobike://asnr/ng", publishercode ="asnr", year = "2016", volume = "6", number = "4", publication date ="2016-07-01T00:00:00", pages = "213-218", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "2637-8329", eissn = "2637-8329", url = "https://asnr.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/asnr/ng/2016/00000006/00000004/art00003", doi = "doi:10.3174/ng.4160161", keyword = "fMRI = functional magnetic resonance imaging, BOLD = blood oxygenation level dependent, CVR = cerebrovascular reactivity, rCVR = relative cerebrovascular reactivity", author = "Peacock, J. and Black, D. and DeLone, D. and Welker, K.", abstract = "Functional MR imaging is a powerful tool for presurgical mapping of cerebral language and motor activity as a means of assessing and mitigating neurosurgical risk to eloquent cortex. Breath-hold scans allow radiologists to correctly interpret fMRI mapping studies by assessing cerebrovascular reactivity and the detectability of cerebral blood oxygenation level dependent contrast on a regional basis. We present a simple and reproducible method for obtaining breath-hold scans and illustrate their clinical use in normal and pathologic conditions.", }