Spin-lattice distribution MRI maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) during life: a pilot study.
An MRI biomarker for Parkinsonism has long been sought, but almost all attempts at conventional field strengths have proved unsatisfactory, since patients and controls are not separated. The exception is Spin-Lattice Distribution MRI (SLD-MRI), a technique which detects changes in the substantia nig...
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oai:doaj.org-article:2dff15d756144a8cbf53b48b29a709922021-11-18T08:35:28ZSpin-lattice distribution MRI maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) during life: a pilot study.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0085194https://doaj.org/article/2dff15d756144a8cbf53b48b29a709922014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24489655/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203An MRI biomarker for Parkinsonism has long been sought, but almost all attempts at conventional field strengths have proved unsatisfactory, since patients and controls are not separated. The exception is Spin-Lattice Distribution MRI (SLD-MRI), a technique which detects changes in the substantia nigra (SN) due to changes in the spin-lattice relaxation time, T1. This easily separates patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) from control subjects at 1.5 Tesla, suggesting that it may be sensitive to presymptomatic disease. SLD-MRI demonstrates a topography of signal change within the SN which is the same as the known topography of pathological change, where the lateral portions of the nucleus are more affected than the medial. In a further step towards its validation, we apply SLD-MRI to a disease control, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), the most common of the atypical forms of Parkinsonism. In PSP the topography of pathological change in the SN is reversed. We therefore hypothesized that PSP would show a topography of SLD-MRI signal change in the SN that is the reverse of PD (i.e. the medial portion is more affected than the lateral). All 7 patients showed such a topography of MR signal, and all patients were separated from control subjects. Although this is a step toward validation of SLD-MRI with respect to sensitivity and disease specificity, nevertheless we stress that this is a pilot project only. Validation will only be possible when comparing larger cohorts of PSP, PD and control subjects.Michael HutchinsonUlrich RaffPedro ChanáIsidro HuetePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 1, p e85194 (2014) |
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An MRI biomarker for Parkinsonism has long been sought, but almost all attempts at conventional field strengths have proved unsatisfactory, since patients and controls are not separated. The exception is Spin-Lattice Distribution MRI (SLD-MRI), a technique which detects changes in the substantia nigra (SN) due to changes in the spin-lattice relaxation time, T1. This easily separates patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) from control subjects at 1.5 Tesla, suggesting that it may be sensitive to presymptomatic disease. SLD-MRI demonstrates a topography of signal change within the SN which is the same as the known topography of pathological change, where the lateral portions of the nucleus are more affected than the medial. In a further step towards its validation, we apply SLD-MRI to a disease control, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), the most common of the atypical forms of Parkinsonism. In PSP the topography of pathological change in the SN is reversed. We therefore hypothesized that PSP would show a topography of SLD-MRI signal change in the SN that is the reverse of PD (i.e. the medial portion is more affected than the lateral). All 7 patients showed such a topography of MR signal, and all patients were separated from control subjects. Although this is a step toward validation of SLD-MRI with respect to sensitivity and disease specificity, nevertheless we stress that this is a pilot project only. Validation will only be possible when comparing larger cohorts of PSP, PD and control subjects. |
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Spin-lattice distribution MRI maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) during life: a pilot study. |
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Spin-lattice distribution MRI maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) during life: a pilot study. |
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Spin-lattice distribution MRI maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) during life: a pilot study. |
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Spin-lattice distribution MRI maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) during life: a pilot study. |
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Spin-lattice distribution MRI maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) during life: a pilot study. |
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spin-lattice distribution mri maps nigral pathology in progressive supranuclear palsy (psp) during life: a pilot study. |
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