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Prefrontal and hippocampal atrophy using 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging in patients with Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The pathology of Parkinson's disease leads to morphological changes in brain structure. Currently, the progressive changes in gray matter volume that occur with time and are specific to patients with Parkinson's disease, compared to healthy controls, remain unclear. High-tesla magnetic resonance imaging might be useful in differentiating neurological disorders by brain cortical changes.

Purpose

We aimed to investigate patterns in gray matter changes in patients with Parkinson's disease by using an automated segmentation method with 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging.

Material and methods

High-resolution T1-weighted 7 tesla magnetic resonance imaging volumes of 24 hemispheres were acquired from 12 Parkinson's disease patients and 12 age- and sex-matched healthy controls with median ages of 64.5 (range, 41-82) years and 60.5 (range, 25-74) years, respectively. Subgroup analysis was performed according to whether axial motor symptoms were present in the Parkinson's disease patients. Cortical volume, cortical thickness, and subcortical volume were measured using a high-resolution image processing technique based on the Desikan-Killiany-Tourville atlas and an automated segmentation method (FreeSurfer version 6.0).

Results

After cortical reconstruction, in 7 tesla magnetic resonance imaging volume segmental analysis, compared with the healthy controls, the Parkinson's disease patients showed global cortical atrophy, mostly in the prefrontal area (rostral middle frontal, superior frontal, inferior parietal lobule, medial orbitofrontal, rostral anterior cingulate area), and subcortical volume atrophy in limbic/paralimbic areas (fusiform, hippocampus, amygdala).

Conclusion

We first demonstrated that 7 tesla magnetic resonance imaging detects structural abnormalities in Parkinson's disease patients compared to healthy controls using an automated segmentation method. Compared with the healthy controls, the Parkinson's disease patients showed global prefrontal cortical atrophy and hippocampal area atrophy.

SUBMITTER: Oh BH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7958639 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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