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Quantitative investigation of global volumetry and relaxometry of the brain in Parkinson's disease patients using synthetic MRI
LU Na  LI Chunmei  LI Shuhua  SU Wen  YU Lu  WU Puye  CHEN Min 

Cite this article as: Lu N, Li CM, Li SH, et al. Quantitative investigation of global volumetry and relaxometry of the brain in Parkinson's disease patients using synthetic MRI[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(4): 1-5, 29. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.04.001.


[Abstract] Objective To evaluate the feasibility of global brain volumetric and relaxometry in differentiating Parkinson's disease patients from healthy controls using the synthetic MRI technique. Materials andMethods Twenty-eight PD patients (age: 67±11 years) and the same number of healthy controls (age: 68±9 years) were enrolled in this study. All participants underwent synthetic MRI (MAGnetic resonance imaging compilation, MAGiC) acquisition on a 3.0 T MRI scanner (Signa Pioneer, GE Healthcare). Volumetric characteristics including white matter volume (WMV), gray matter volume (GMV), cerebral spinal fluid volume (CSFV), myelin volume (MYV), brain parenchymal volume (BPV), intracranial volume (ICV), white matter fraction (WMF=WMV/BPV), gray matter fraction (GMF=GMV/BPV), myelin fraction (MYF=MYV/BPV) and cerebral spinal fluid fraction (CSFF=CSF/ICV) were acquired. The average relaxometric characteristics including T1, T2 and proton density (PrD) values in WM, GM and CSF were calculated from voxels with partial volume exceeding 95% of the corresponding tissue. Independent-samples t-test was used to assess the difference of the age, volumetric and relaxometric characteristics between two groups. Chi-square test was used to assess the gender difference between two groups.Results No difference was observed in age (P=0.587) and gender (P=0.181) between these two groups. For volumetry, WMV (515.514±71.213 vs. 461.800±64.816 P=0.005), WMF (43.621±3.788 vs. 40.660±2.844, P=0.002), MYV (162.257±24.928 vs. 144.611±22.575, P=0.008) and MYF (13.707±1.284 vs. 12.711±1.094, P=0.003) were significantly higher while GMF (52.868±3.234 vs. 56.011±2.550, P=0.000) were significantly lower in PD patients. No difference was observed in GMV, BPV, ICV, CSFV and CSFF. For relaxometry, GM T1 value (1604.872±56.038 vs. 1570.553±55.992, P=0.026), WM T1 value (749.786±21.935 vs. 761.379±20.651, P=0.047) were significantly higher while CSF PrD value (101.149±1.327 vs. 101.842±0.972, P=0.030) were significantly lower in PD patients. No difference was observed in CSF T1 value, CSF T2 value, WM T2 value, and WM PrD value.Conclusions Volumetry and relaxometry simultaneously obtained from synthetic MRI may have potential to be used as quantitative markers for clinic to differentiate Parkinson's disease patients among the healthy.
[Keywords] magnetic resonance imaging；Parkinson's disease；global volumetry；relaxometry

LU Na1, 2   LI Chunmei1   LI Shuhua3   SU Wen3   YU Lu4   WU Puye5   CHEN Min1, 2*  

1 Department of Radiology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing 100730, China

2 Graduate School of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China

3 Department of Neurology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing 100730, China

4 Department of Radiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing 100037, China

5 GE Healthcare, Beijing 100176, China

Chen M, E-mail: cjr.chenmin@vip.163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

This work was part of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81771826); National Key R&D Program Found (No. 2016YFC1306602); Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Found (No. 2018-12M-1-002).
Received  2020-12-17
Accepted  2021-01-28
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.04.001
Cite this article as: Lu N, Li CM, Li SH, et al. Quantitative investigation of global volumetry and relaxometry of the brain in Parkinson's disease patients using synthetic MRI[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(4): 1-5, 29. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.04.001.

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