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- Title
Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging of Microstructural Changes in Gray Matter Nucleus in Parkinson Disease.
- Authors
Bingbing, Gao; Yujing, Zhou; Yanwei, Miao; Chunbo, Dong; Weiwei, Wang; Shiyun, Tian; Yangyingqiu, Liu; Jin, Shang; Qingwei, Song; Ailian, Liu; Lizhi, Xie
- Abstract
Objective: To explore the microstructural damage of extrapyramidal system gray matter nuclei in Parkinson disease (PD) using diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI). Materials and Methods: We enrolled 35 clinically confirmed PD patients and 23 healthy volunteers. All patients underwent MR examination with conventional MRI scan sequences and an additional DKI sequence. We subsequently reconstructed the DKI raw images and analyzed the data. A radiologist in our hospital collected the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score of all subjects. Results: In the PD group, the mean kurtosis and axial kurtosis level decreased in the red nucleus (RN) and thalamus; the radial kurtosis increased in the substantia nigra (SN) and globus pallidus (GP). Fractional anisotropy decreased in the putamen. The largest area under the ROC curve of mean diffusion in GP was 0.811. Most kurtosis parameters demonstrated a positive correlation with the MMSE score, while several diffusion parameters showed a negative correlation with the same. Conclusion: DKI can qualitatively distinguish PD from healthy controls; furthermore, DKI-derived parameters can quantitatively evaluate the modifications of microstructures in extrapyramidal system gray matter nucleus in PD.
- Subjects
PARKINSON'S disease; KURTOSIS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION magnetic resonance imaging; MINI-Mental State Examination
- Publication
Frontiers in Neurology, 2020, Vol 11, p1
- ISSN
1664-2295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fneur.2020.00252