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Area of Science:

  • Neuroimaging
  • Neuroscience
  • Medical Physics

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  • Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology involves dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra (SN), affecting basal ganglia pathways.
  • Diffusion MRI assesses white matter connectivity for PD diagnosis.
  • Manual segmentation of subcortical structures is inconsistent.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply automated segmentation using Lead-DBS for consistent analysis of subcortical structures.
  • To investigate differences in diffusion MRI measures between 3T and 7T acquisition protocols.
  • To establish a methodology for diffusion-based analysis of basal ganglia and their connectivity.

Main Methods:

  • Applied Lead-DBS to Human Connectome Project data for automatic segmentation of 11 subcortical structures in 49 subjects.
  • Utilized the Lead-connectome pipeline with DSI Studio to generate structural connectomes from 3T and 7T diffusion images.
  • Analyzed diffusion measures including fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD).

Main Results:

  • Found significantly higher FA in the 3T left SN.
  • Observed significantly higher MD in the 3T left SN, right amygdala, SN, and subthalamic nucleus (STN).
  • Detected significantly higher AD in the right red nucleus (RN) and STN, and higher RD in the left RN and right amygdala.

Conclusions:

  • Demonstrated a reproducible methodology for obtaining diffusion measures of basal ganglia and their connectivity.
  • Highlighted potential differences in diffusion measures due to varying MRI acquisition protocols (3T vs. 7T).
  • Emphasized the need to consider MRI acquisition parameters for accurate PD diagnosis using diffusion imaging.