The correlation of hippocampal T2-mapping with neuropsychology test in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

OBJECTIVES: 1) To deduce T2, the inverse of the transverse relaxation rate (R2), in the hippocampus of healthy adults; 2) to investigate the brain iron deposition in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and age-matched healthy controls using T2-values. METHODS: T2-weighted data from the bilateral-...

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Main Authors: Zhuren Luo, Xiongjie Zhuang, Dushyant Kumar, Xiurong Wu, Cen Yue, Chengkun Han, Jiancheng Lv
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3786916?pdf=render