Abstract #4699
Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping in the Basal Ganglia of Parkinsons Patients
Christian Langkammer 1 , Lukas Pirpamer 1 , Stephan Seiler 1 , Tamara Pendl 1 , Ferdinand Schweser 2 , Andreas Deistung 2 , Petra Katschnig-Winter 1 , Mariella Koegl-Wallner 1 , Eva Maria Stoegerer 1 , Juergen Rainer Reichenbach 2 , Franz Fazekas 1 , Stefan Ropele 1 , Reinhold Schmidt 1 , and Petra Schwingenschuh 1
1
Department of Neurology, Medical University
of Graz, Graz, Austria,
2
Medical
Physics Group, Institute of Diagnostic and
Interventional Radiology I, University
Hospital-Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena,
Germany
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) and R2*
relaxation rate mapping, both methods validated highly
sensitive for iron, demonstrated elevated iron
concentration in the putamen of patients with
Parkinsons disease (PD) showed with respect to healthy
controls.
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