Nick Evanoff, MS, doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology, is the lead author of an article, “Reproducibility of a ramping protocol to measure cerebral vascular reactivity using functional magnetic resonance imaging,” in the Journal of Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging.

The publication examines the reproducibility of a new method to evaluate function in brain blood vessels using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and linear changes in CO2. The results of this study found that this MRI method could be used by both clinicians and researchers to examine cerebral pathophysiology in a new and dynamic way.