The applied value in brain gray matter nuclei of patients with early-stage Parkinson’s disease : a study based on multiple magnetic resonance imaging techniques

Head & Face Medicine

Research

Heng Meng¹  Duo Zhang¹  Qiyuan Sun¹ 

[1] Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of BeiHua University, 132011, Jilin, China;

关键词: Parkinson’s disease;    Magnetic resonance imaging;    Diffusion tensor imaging;    Diffusion kurtosis imaging;    Quantitative susceptibility mapping;    Susceptibility weighted imaging;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13005-023-00371-4

 received in 2022-12-09, accepted in 2023-06-19,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

PurposeThis study compares the observation efficiency of brain gray matter nuclei of patients with early-stage Parkinson’s disease among various Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques, which include susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI), quantitative susceptibility imaging (QSM), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI). Based on the findings, this study suggests an efficient combination of scanning techniques for brain gray matter nuclei observation, aiming to provide an opportunity to advance the understanding of clinical diagnosis of early-stage Parkinson’s disease.MethodsForty examinees, including twenty patients who were clinically diagnosed with early Parkinson’s disease with a course of 0.5-6 years (PD group) and twenty healthy controls (HC group), underwent head MRI examination. Philips 3.0T (tesla) MR machine was used to measure the imaging indexes of gray matter nuclei in patients with early Parkinson’s disease. SWI, QSM, DTI and DKI were used for diagnosis. SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) 21.0 was used for data analysis.ResultsWhen SWI was used, fifteen PD patients and six healthy volunteers were diagnosed correctly. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic coincidence rate about the diagnosis of nigrosome-1 on imaging were 75.0%, 30.0%, 51.7%, 54.5% and 52.5% respectively. By contrast, when QSM was used, 19 PD patients and 11 healthy volunteers were diagnosed correctly. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic coincidence rate about the diagnosis of Nigrosome-one on imaging were 95.0%, 55.0%, 67.9%, 91.7% and 75.0% respectively. The mean kurtosis (MK) value within both the substantia nigra and thalamus, together with the mean diffusivity (MD) within both the substantia nigra and the head of caudate nucleus in PD group was greater than that of HC group. The susceptibility values within the substantia nigra, red nucleus, head of caudate nucleus and putamen of PD group was greater than that of HC group. The MD value in substantia nigra reveals the optimal diagnostic efficiency to distinguish the HC group and the PD group, followed by the MK value in substantia nigra. Specifically, the maximum area under ROC curve (AUC) of the MD value was 0.823, the sensitivity 70.0%, the specificity 85.0%, and the diagnostic threshold 0.414. The area under ROC curve (AUC) of the MK value was 0.695, the sensitivity 95.0%, the specificity 50.0%, and the diagnostic threshold was 0.667. Both of them were statistically significant.ConclusionsIn the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, QSM is more efficient than SWI in observing nigrosome-1 in substantia nigra. In the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, MD and MK values of substantia nigra in DKI parameters have higher diagnostic efficiency. The combined scanning of DKI and QSM has the highest diagnostic efficiency and provides imaging basis for clinical diagnosis of early Parkinson’s disease.

【 授权许可】

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