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Abstract #1727

High resolution probabilistic in-vivo atlas of Nigrosome 1

Marta Lancione1, Graziella Donatelli2,3, Matteo Cencini1, Paolo Bosco1, Mauro Costagli1,4, Mirco Cosottini5, Laura Biagi1, and Michela Tosetti1
1IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy, 2IMAGO7 Foundation, Pisa, Italy, 3Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, 4University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, 5University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Synopsis

Keywords: Neurodegeneration, Neurodegeneration, Atlas, NigrosomeIron accumulation in Nigrosome 1 (N1) may represent an important biomarker in neurodegenerative disorders but its small dimension and the vanishing swallow tail sign in patients make the segmentation of this region challenging. We propose a probabilistic atlas of N1 created on a multimodal (T1-w and T2*-w) template using ROIs that were manually drawn on 0.6mm-isotropic T2*-weighted images of twenty healthy subjects. Its usability and accuracy were tested on four additional subjects by comparing the mean N1 susceptibility and T2* obtained using the atlas to those obtained from manual ROIs and by measuring their geometrical proximity.

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