Gray matter correlates of dopaminergic degeneration in Parkinson's disease: A hybrid PET/MR study using 18F-FP-CIT

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• 作者：Hongyoon Choi ; Gi Jeong Cheon ; Han-Joon Kim ; Seung Hong Choi ; Yong-Il Kim ; Keon Wook Kang ; June-Key Chung ; E. Edmund Kim and Dong Soo Lee
• 关键词：18F-FP-CIT ; PET/MR ; Parkinson's disease ; voxel-based morphometry ; basal ganglia
• 刊名：Human Brain Mapping
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：37
• 期：5
• 页码：1710-1721
• 全文大小：1918K
• ISSN：1097-0193

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Dopaminergic degeneration is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD), which causes various symptoms affected by corticostriatal circuits. So far, the relationship between cortical changes and dopamine loss in the striatum is unclear. Here, we evaluate the gray matter (GM) changes in accordance with striatal dopaminergic degeneration in PD using hybrid PET/MR. Sixteen patients with idiopathic PD underwent ¹⁸F-FP-CIT PET/MR. To measure dopaminergic degeneration in PD, binding ratio (BR) of dopamine transporter in striatum was evaluated by ¹⁸F-FP-CIT. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to evaluate GM density. We obtained voxelwise correlation maps of GM density according to the striatal BR. Voxel-by-voxel correlation between BR maps and GM density maps was done to evaluate region-specific correlation of striatal dopaminergic degeneration. There was a trend of positive correlation between striatal BR and GM density in the cerebellum, parahippocampal gyri, and frontal cortex. A trend of negative correlation between striatal BR and GM density in the medial occipital cortex was found. Voxel-by-voxel correlation revealed that the positive correlation was mainly dependent on anterior striatal BR, while posterior striatal BR mostly showed negative correlation with GM density in occipital and temporal cortices. Decreased GM density related to anterior striatal dopaminergic degeneration might demonstrate degeneration of dopaminergic nonmotor circuits. Furthermore, the negative correlation could be related to the motor circuits of posterior striatum. Our integrated PET/MR study suggests that the widespread structural progressive changes in PD could denote the cortical functional correlates of the degeneration of striatal dopaminergic circuits. Hum Brain Mapp 37:1710–1721, 2016.