Title
Mapping of thalamic magnetic susceptibility in multiple sclerosis indicates decreasing iron with disease duration: A proposed mechanistic relationship between inflammation and oligodendrocyte vitality.
Abstract
Recent advances in susceptibility MRI have dramatically improved the visualization of deep gray matter brain regions and the quantification of their magnetic properties in vivo, providing a novel tool to study the poorly understood iron homeostasis in the human brain. In this study, we used an advanced combination of the recent quantitative susceptibility mapping technique with dedicated analysis methods to study intra-thalamic tissue alterations in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Thalamic pathology is one of the earliest hallmarks of MS and has been shown to correlate with cognitive dysfunction and fatigue, but the mechanisms underlying the thalamic pathology are poorly understood.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.10.063
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Quantitative susceptibility mapping,QSM,Iron,Multiple sclerosis,Thalamus
Thalamus,Developmental psychology,Oligodendrocyte,Neuroscience,Quantitative susceptibility mapping,Multiple sclerosis,Psychology,Pulvinar nuclei,Human brain,Clinically isolated syndrome,Microglia,Pathology
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
167
1053-8119
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
14
10