Academic Radiology
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 721-727 , June 2006

Inversion Recovery MRI in Idiopathic Parkinson Disease Is a Very Sensitive Tool to Assess Neurodegeneration in the Substantia Nigra: Preliminary Investigation

  • Ulrich Raff, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Santiago de Chile, Avda Ecuador 3493, Santiago, Chile
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: U.R.
    • ,
  • Michael Hutchinson, PhD, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Gonzalo M. Rojas, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, University of Santiago de Chile, Avda Ecuador 3493, Santiago, Chile
    • ,
  • Isidro Huete, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Received 15 December 2005 ,Revised 12 January 2006 ,Accepted 15 January 2006.

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1 This study was supported in part by the Myra Fox and Max Smedresman Funds for Research into Parkinson’s disease (NYU School of Medicine; M.H., U.R.) and partial support from the DICYT of the University of Santiago de Chile (grant 020531RB).

PII: S1076-6332(06)00078-X

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.01.049

Academic Radiology
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 721-727 , June 2006

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