Abstract #0335

Cerebral gray matter volume changes caused by exposure to hypobaric environment: a preliminary study

Dandan Zheng¹, Wenjia Liu², Li Zheng³, and Lin Ma²

¹MR Research China, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China, People's Republic of, ²Radiology Department, Beijing Military General Hospital, Beijing, China, People's Republic of, ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, People's Republic of

Acute mountain sickness is a series of pathologic reactions during rapid exposing to low pressure hypoxic high altitude environment, which is a widespread illness among un-acclimatized individuals in plateau. Human always stay in plain will display some common physiological and pathological changes of brain, such as change of cerebral blood flow, cerebral pressure and brain volume. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether there was different change of gray matter volume in some brain regions related to AMS development before, during and after exposing to the real high altitude environment.

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