Toward an early diagnostic marker of Parkinson's: measuring iron in dopaminergic neurons with MR relaxometry
Malte Brammerloh, Markus Morawski, Isabel Friedrich, T. Reinert, Charlotte Lange, Primož Pelicon, Primož Vavpetič, Steffen Jankuhn, Carsten Jäger, Anneke Alkemade, Rawien A. Balesar, Kerrin Pine, Filippos Gavriilidis, Robert Trampel, Enrico Reimer, , Evgeniya P. Kirilina
The paper links MRI relaxation rate in substantia nigra to iron concentration in dopaminergic neurons, enabling early Parkinson's disease detection.
NeuroImage · Jun 11, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience