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Activation studies with positron emission tomography (PET) in auditory implant users explained some of the mechanisms underlying the variability of achieved speech comprehension. Since future developments of auditory implants will include studies in rodents, we aimed to inversely translate functional PET imaging to rats. In normal hearing rats, activity in auditory and non-auditory regions was studied using  18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose ( 18 F-FDG) PET with 3 different acoustic conditions: sound attenuated laboratory background, continuous white noise and rippled noise. Additionally, bilateral cochlea ablated animals were scanned. 3D image data were transferred into a stereotaxic standard space and evaluated using volume of interest (VOI) analyses and statistical parametric mapping (SPM). In normal hearing rats alongside the auditory pathway consistent activations of the nucleus cochlearis (NC), olivary complex (OC) and inferior colliculus (IC) were seen comparing stimuli with background. In this respect, no increased activation could be detected in the auditory cortex (AC), which even showed deactivation with white noise stimulation. Nevertheless, higher activity in the AC in normal hearing rats was observed for all 3 auditory conditions against the cochlea ablated status. Vice versa, in ablated status activity in the olfactory nucleus (ON) was higher compared to all auditory conditions in normal hearing rats. Our results indicate that activations can be demonstrated in normal hearing animals based on  18 F-FDG PET in nuclei along the central auditory pathway with different types of noise stimuli. However, in the AC missing activation with respect to the background advises the need for more rigorous background noise attenuation for non-invasive reference conditions. Finally, our data suggest cross-modal activation of the olfactory system following cochlea ablation–underlining, that  18 F-FDG PET appears to be well suited to study plasticity in rat models for cochlear implantation.

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Visualization of the auditory pathway in rats with 18F-FDG PET activation studies based on different auditory stimuli and reference conditions including cochlea ablation