A robust method for the detection of small changes in relaxation parameters and free water content in the vicinity of the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease patients.

Alterations in the substantia nigra are strongly associated with Parkinson's disease. However, due to low contrast and partial volume effects present in typical MRI images, the substantia nigra is not of sufficient size to obtain a reliable segmentation for region-of-interest based analysis. To...

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Main Authors: Krzysztof Dzieciol, Elene Iordanishvili, Zaheer Abbas, Adjmal Nahimi, Michael Winterdahl, N Jon Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247552