NOVEL MRI METHODS IRON QUALIFICATION IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE

$15,128P41FY2011RRNIH

University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

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Abstract

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. In this project, we plan to validate a new biomarker (adiabatic T1[unreadable] and T2[unreadable]) measured non-invasively in the substantia nigra MRI as a means to achieve statistical separation between Parkinson's diseased (PD) patients from control subjects. The novel adiabatic T1[unreadable] and T2[unreadable] MRI relaxation methods proposed here for the measurement of neuronal deficiency may provide useful insights into the pathogenesis of neurological disorders, in particular PD. We demonstrated that the T1[unreadable] relaxation measurements provide direct information about the fundamental dynamic parameters of the water spins in different areas of the brain. We show that the change in density of neurons and their projections is reflected in the tumbling of the water spins. This suggests that T1[unreadable] measurements can potentially be used to quantify the neuronal loss in the SNc of PD patients, as well as likely other neurodegenerative conditions. The T1[unreadable] measurements provide unique information as compared to conventional T1 MRI due to the sweep of the effective magnetic field during the adiabatic pulses used for the measurements. Further studies will be warranted to confirm the applicability of our technique to additional neurodegenerative disease models, however we expect that this technique will prove capable of detecting cell loss in any given brain region of interest.

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