Klaus H Maier-Hein1, Carl-Fredrik Westin2, Martha E Shenton3, Michael W Weiner4, Ashish Raj5, Philipp Thomann6, Ron Kikinis2, Bram Stieltjes7, Ofer Pasternak8. 1. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Junior Group Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; Junior Group Quantitative Image-based Disease Characterization, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: k.maier-hein@dkfz.de. 2. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 3. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Health Scientist, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton, MA, USA. 4. Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease, San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, USA. 5. Image Data Evaluation and Analytics Lab (IDEAL), Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. 6. Department of General Psychiatry, Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany. 7. Junior Group Quantitative Image-based Disease Characterization, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. 8. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Brain atrophy in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) introduces partial volume effects, limiting the sensitivity of diffusion tensor imaging to white matter microstructural degeneration. Appropriate correction isolates microstructural effects in MCI that might be precursors of Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: Forty-eight participants (18 MCI, 15 AD, and 15 healthy controls) had magnetic resonance imaging scans and clinical evaluations at baseline and follow-up after 36 months. Ten MCI subjects were diagnosed with AD at follow-up and eight remained MCI. Free-water (FW) corrected measures on the white matter skeleton were compared between groups. RESULTS: FW corrected radial diffusivity, but not uncorrected radial diffusivity, was increased across the brain of the converted group compared with the nonconverted group (P < .05). The extent of increases was similar to that found comparing AD with controls. CONCLUSION: Partial volume elimination reveals microstructural alterations preceding dementia. These alterations may prove to be an effective and feasible early biomarker of AD.
BACKGROUND:Brain atrophy in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) introduces partial volume effects, limiting the sensitivity of diffusion tensor imaging to white matter microstructural degeneration. Appropriate correction isolates microstructural effects in MCI that might be precursors of Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: Forty-eight participants (18 MCI, 15 AD, and 15 healthy controls) had magnetic resonance imaging scans and clinical evaluations at baseline and follow-up after 36 months. Ten MCI subjects were diagnosed with AD at follow-up and eight remained MCI. Free-water (FW) corrected measures on the white matter skeleton were compared between groups. RESULTS: FW corrected radial diffusivity, but not uncorrected radial diffusivity, was increased across the brain of the converted group compared with the nonconverted group (P < .05). The extent of increases was similar to that found comparing AD with controls. CONCLUSION: Partial volume elimination reveals microstructural alterations preceding dementia. These alterations may prove to be an effective and feasible early biomarker of AD.
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