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Abstract #4302

Region-specific disturbed iron distribution in early idiopathic Parkinsons disease measured by quantitative susceptibility mapping

Naying He 1 , Fuhua Yan 2 , Huawei Ling 2 , Yong Zhang 3 , and Zhongping Zhang 4

1 Ruijin Hospital,Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2 Ruijin Hospital,Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 3 MR Research, GE Healthcare, China, Shanghai, China, 4 MR Research, GE Healthcare, China, Guangzhou, China

A reliable in vivo quantitative evaluation of iron deposition is important, especially in early PD. Several technical problems prevent the conventional GRE approaches from quantitatively detect local susceptibility changes which are assumed to reflect iron depositions in brain regions. In this work, we utilized a novel post-processing method, quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) to investigate the iron deposition changes in early PD, and explore their relationships with clinical futures. The results indicate that QSM is useful for quantitatively detection of iron alteration in brain, which might be an early event in the progression of PD.

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