Posterior hypoperfusion in parkinson's disease With and without dementia measured with arterial spin labeling MRI

Purpose: To determine whether quantitative arterial spin labeling (ASL) can be used to evaluate regional cerebral blood flow in Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) and without dementia (PD). Materials and Methods: Thirty‐five PD patients, 11 PDD patients, and 35 normal controls were scanned...

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Published in:Journal of magnetic resonance imaging 2011-04, Vol.33 (4), p.803-807
Main Authors: Kamagata, Koji, Motoi, Yumiko, Hori, Masaaki, Suzuki, Michimasa, Nakanishi, Atsushi, Shimoji, Keigo, Kyougoku, Shinsuke, Kuwatsuru, Ryohei, Sasai, Keisuke, Abe, Osamu, Mizuno, Yoshikuni, Aoki, Shigeki, Hattori, Nobutaka
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
arterial spin labeling
Arteries - pathology
Brain - blood supply
Cerebrovascular Circulation
Dementia - diagnosis
Dementia - pathology
Diagnostic Imaging - methods
Disease Progression
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods
Male
Middle Aged
Neurology - methods
Parkinson Disease - diagnosis
Parkinson Disease - pathology
Parkinson's disease
posterior cortex
Spin Labels
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Summary:Purpose: To determine whether quantitative arterial spin labeling (ASL) can be used to evaluate regional cerebral blood flow in Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) and without dementia (PD). Materials and Methods: Thirty‐five PD patients, 11 PDD patients, and 35 normal controls were scanned by using a quantitative ASL method with a 3 Tesla MRI unit. Regional cerebral blood flow was compared in the posterior cortex using region‐of‐interest analysis. Results: PD and PDD patients showed lower regional cerebral blood flow in the posterior cortex than normal controls (P = 0.002 and P = 0.001, respectively, analysis of variance with a Bonferroni post hoc test). Conclusion: This is the first study to detect hypoperfusion in the posterior cortex in PD and PDD patients using ASL perfusion MRI. Because ASL perfusion MRI is completely noninvasive and can, therefore, safely be used for repeated assessments, this method can be used to monitor treatment effects or disease progression in PD. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2011;33:803–807. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
ISSN:1053-1807
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DOI:10.1002/jmri.22515