Title
Voxel-based analysis of multiple-system atrophy of cerebellar type: complementary results by combining voxel-based morphometry and voxel-based relaxometry.
Abstract
Voxel-based relaxometry (VBR) is a novel morphometric method that analyses the relaxation rate R2 derived from multi-echo T2-weighted images on a voxel-by-voxel basis. We used VBR to study the brain morphology of 14 patients suffering from multiple-system atrophy of cerebellar type (MSA-C) and compared the results with those obtained by voxel-based morphometry (VBM) of T1-weighted images. VBR analysis revealed reduction of relaxation rate R2 in the cerebellum and brainstem reflecting infratentorial brain atrophy. The affected regions largely corresponded to those regions in which VBM showed reductions of grey and white matter. In addition, R2 was increased in the putamen, a region in which VBM did not show abnormalities. Our data show that the combination of VBR and VBM provided convergent and complimentary information about the brain morphology of MSA-C.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.11.022
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Voxel-based morphometry,Magnetic resonance imaging,Relaxometry,Multiple-system atrophy
Voxel,Nuclear medicine,White matter,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Brain morphometry,Voxel-based morphometry,Atrophy,Relaxometry,Nuclear magnetic resonance,Cerebellum,Magnetic resonance imaging
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
1
1053-8119
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
1.03
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karsten Specht118121.13
martina minnerop2172.27
Jonas Müller-Hübenthal391.03
Thomas Klockgether4112.12