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Abstract #2228

Improved Correlation of Iron to R2 and R2* in Alzheimers Disease-Affected White Matter

Christos Michaelides 1 , David J Lythgoe 1 , Harold G Parkes 2 , Claire Troakes 3 , Istvan Bodi 4 , Tina Geraki 5 , Amy H Herlihy 6 , and Po-Wah So 1

1 IOPPN, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 CR-UK Clinical MR Research Group, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, London, United Kingdom, 3 MRC London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, IOPPN, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 4 Clinical Neuropathology & London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 5 Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 6 Agilent Technologies, Yarnton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Iron dysregulation may be a contributing factor to neuronal cell death in Alzheimers disease. MR relaxometry and MT measurements, in fixed post-mortem human AD and control samples, were correlated with direct iron assessment, using synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence mapping. The correlation of iron against MT or luxol fast blue staining were significantly different between control and AD samples, indicating a change in the relationship of iron and myelin in AD. R2 and R2* values demonstrated greater correlation to iron in AD-affected white matter than control, potentially impacting the clinical relevance for R2 and R2* relaxometry to assess iron in vivo.

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