Journal: Molecular Medicine
Article Title: Relationship between brain iron deposition and mitochondrial dysfunction in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
doi: 10.1186/s10020-021-00426-9
Figure Lengend Snippet: Methodological approaches for the analysis of the multimodal neuroimaging data. In A , analyses of 31 P-MRSI measurements are summarized; in B , the approach on calculations of CNRs (as derived from SWI). Panel A.1 illustrates the voxel size and CSI grid placement (green) for 31 P-MRSI measurements in axial, coronal, and sagittal planes. In Panel A.II, the voxels of interest (VOIs) for subcortical brain regions are highlighted for each hemisphere (orange hatched). One exemplary 31 P-MRSI spectrum (white line) and the respective model line fit (red line) is shown in Panel A.III. The metabolites of relevance for this study are labeled in yellow. For the sake of readability, other peaks are not marked, as they were not of interest to the hypothesis of this study. In Panel B.I, an exemplary SWI image of one study participant in the axial plane is shown. In Panel B.II, we highlighted the reference ROI placement (blue circles) in the lateral ventricles by a magnified snippet (blue framework). 31P-MRSI 31 Phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging. ATP adenosine triphosphate, CSI chemical shift imaging, iP inorganic phosphate, PCr phosphocreatinine, ppm parts per million, ROI region of interest, SWI susceptibility-weighted imaging, VOI voxel of interest
Article Snippet: 31 P-MRSI spectra were fitted in the time domain using the well-established AMARES (advanced method for accurate, robust, and efficient spectral fitting) algorithm (Vanhamme et al. ) as implemented in the Oxford Spectroscopy Analysis toolbox (Purvis et al. ) (OXSA; https://github.com/oxsatoolbox/oxsa ) for Matlab ® .
Techniques: Derivative Assay, Labeling, Spectroscopy, Imaging