Utility of Imaging of Nigrosome-1 on 3T MRI and Its Comparison with 18F-DOPA PET in the Diagnosis of Idiopathic Parkinson Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism.
Heena KathuriaSahil MehtaChirag K AhujaKamalesh ChakravartySucharita RayBhagwant Rai MittalParamjeet SinghVivek LalPublished in: Movement disorders clinical practice (2020)
The loss of nigrosome-1 on 3T MRI on SWI and VenoBOLD sequences may serve as a potential imaging marker in the diagnosis of degenerative parkinsonian syndromes. However, it cannot differentiate between idiopathic Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonian syndromes.