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The effect of age and disease on the MR imaging T2 low signal intensity area in the cerebral cortex

Abstract

We retrospectively studied magnetic resonance (MR) images of the brain in 139 patients (16 cases of Alzheimer's disease, 8 cases of Parkinson's disease, 53 cases of multiple cerebral infarct, 33 cases of other central nervous diseases, and 29 cases of peripheral neuropathy) between the age of 6 and 85 years old with a mean age of 60.6[+-]18.5 to examine the appearance of T2 low signal intensity areas (T[sub 2]-CLIA) in the cerebral cortex. Motor, occipital, sensory or other cortices were evaluated with long repetition time/echo time (TR/TE) spin-echo sequences and staged into three grades in the motor cortex: none, partial, and whole; and two grades in the other: none or present. In general, T[sub 2]-CLIA was not seen in any cortex in patients less than 50 years old, then after 50 years old T[sub 2]-CLIA increased with age. Over 70 years of age T[sub 2]-CLIA appeared in 50.9% of patients in the whole motor cortex, 88.7% in either whole or partial motor cortex, 47.2% in the occipital cortex, and 20.8% in the sensory cortex. T[sub 2]-CLIA was not observed in other cortices. The incidence of T[sub 2]-CLIA appearance in the motor cortex was significantly higher in all central nervous diseases  More>>
Authors:
Imon, Yukari; Yamaguchi, Shinya; Katayama, Sadao; Harada, Akira; Yamamura, Yasuhiro; Nakamura, Shigenobu [1] 
  1. Hiroshima Univ. (Japan). School of Medicine
Publication Date:
Sep 01, 1994
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
JPN-95-001324; EDB-95-038427
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Geriatrics); (Japan); Journal Volume: 31:9
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NMR IMAGING; SPIN-SPIN RELAXATION; AGE DEPENDENCE; ATROPHY; IRON; SIGNALS; BODY; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRUM; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; ELEMENTS; METALS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; RELAXATION; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; 550602* - Medicine- External Radiation in Diagnostics- (1980-)
OSTI ID:
6859685
Research Organizations:
No corporate text available
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 0300-9173; CODEN: NIRZAL
Submitting Site:
JPN
Size:
Pages: 697-704
Announcement Date:
Mar 15, 1995

Citation Formats

Imon, Yukari, Yamaguchi, Shinya, Katayama, Sadao, Harada, Akira, Yamamura, Yasuhiro, and Nakamura, Shigenobu. The effect of age and disease on the MR imaging T2 low signal intensity area in the cerebral cortex. Japan: N. p., 1994. Web.
Imon, Yukari, Yamaguchi, Shinya, Katayama, Sadao, Harada, Akira, Yamamura, Yasuhiro, & Nakamura, Shigenobu. The effect of age and disease on the MR imaging T2 low signal intensity area in the cerebral cortex. Japan.
Imon, Yukari, Yamaguchi, Shinya, Katayama, Sadao, Harada, Akira, Yamamura, Yasuhiro, and Nakamura, Shigenobu. 1994. "The effect of age and disease on the MR imaging T2 low signal intensity area in the cerebral cortex." Japan.
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title = {The effect of age and disease on the MR imaging T2 low signal intensity area in the cerebral cortex}
author = {Imon, Yukari, Yamaguchi, Shinya, Katayama, Sadao, Harada, Akira, Yamamura, Yasuhiro, and Nakamura, Shigenobu}
abstractNote = {We retrospectively studied magnetic resonance (MR) images of the brain in 139 patients (16 cases of Alzheimer's disease, 8 cases of Parkinson's disease, 53 cases of multiple cerebral infarct, 33 cases of other central nervous diseases, and 29 cases of peripheral neuropathy) between the age of 6 and 85 years old with a mean age of 60.6[+-]18.5 to examine the appearance of T2 low signal intensity areas (T[sub 2]-CLIA) in the cerebral cortex. Motor, occipital, sensory or other cortices were evaluated with long repetition time/echo time (TR/TE) spin-echo sequences and staged into three grades in the motor cortex: none, partial, and whole; and two grades in the other: none or present. In general, T[sub 2]-CLIA was not seen in any cortex in patients less than 50 years old, then after 50 years old T[sub 2]-CLIA increased with age. Over 70 years of age T[sub 2]-CLIA appeared in 50.9% of patients in the whole motor cortex, 88.7% in either whole or partial motor cortex, 47.2% in the occipital cortex, and 20.8% in the sensory cortex. T[sub 2]-CLIA was not observed in other cortices. The incidence of T[sub 2]-CLIA appearance in the motor cortex was significantly higher in all central nervous diseases than in cases of peripheral neuropathy over 70. T[sub 2]-CLIA showed a correlation with temporal lobe atrophy and white matter lesions in the motor cortex. In the sensory cortex, T[sub 2]-CLIA correlated with white matter lesions. These results suggest that T[sub 2]-CLIA may correlate with age or accumulation of nonheme iron in the cortex associated with central nervous diseases. (author).}
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volume = {31:9}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Japan}
year = {1994}
month = {Sep}
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