Nigrosome 1 visibility at susceptibility weighted 7T MRI-A dependable diagnostic marker for Parkinson's disease or merely an inconsistent, age-dependent imaging finding?

Nigrosome 1 visibility at susceptibility weighted 7T MRI-A dependable diagnostic marker for Parkinson's disease or merely an inconsistent, age-dependent imaging finding?

Visualisation of nigrosome 1, a substructure of the healthy substantia nigra, was restricted in susceptibility weighted MR imaging in almost all patients with Parkinson's disease studied so far. The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of visibility of this substructure in subjects...

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Main Authors: Carolin Gramsch, Iris Reuter, Oliver Kraff, Harald H Quick, Christian Tanislav, Florian Roessler, Cornelius Deuschl, Michael Forsting, Marc Schlamann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5634553?pdf=render

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