Abstract #4271

Aging effects on kurtosis measures of limbic and association white matter tracts

Qinmu Peng^1,2, King Kevin^3,4, Minhui Ouyang¹, Hanzhang Lu⁵, and Hao Huang^1,2

¹Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States, ²Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, ³Department of Imaging, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, ⁴Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, ⁵Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University

Numerous studies have revealed that DTI-derived metrics are sensitive to the microstructural changes of the aging white matter tracts. However, microstructural changes associated with non-Gaussian water diffusion cannot be quantified by DTI-derived metrics, but uniquely quantified by DKI-derived metrics. Little is known on the progressive white matter microstructural changes measured by DKI-derived metric during aging. In this study, we found that the measurements of DKI-derived mean kurtosis (MK) decrease heterogeneously across white matter tracts, characterized with significant MK decreases in limbic tracts including fornix and cingulum and insignificant MK decreases in the association tracts.

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