Current two CMRO2 mapping methods, QSM-based method and qBOLD, suffer from the issues in their own model assumptions, such as blood flow challenge and linear relationship assumption between cerebral blood volume (CBV) and flow (CBF) in QSM-based method and the high sensitivity to noise and recent one-compartment assumption in qBOLD. We combined these two models with regularization based on that vein blood volume fraction and vein oxygenation are shared, which removes the challenge and linear assumption in QSM method and alleviates the high noise sensitivity and one-compartment assumption issue in qBOLD. The proposed model provided more uniform OEF and CMRO2.
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