Volumetric comparison of hippocampal subfields extracted from 4-minute accelerated vs. 8-minute high-resolution T2-weighted 3T MRI scans

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2018-01-05
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The hippocampus has been widely studied using neuroimaging, as it plays an important role in memory and learning. However, hippocampal subfield information is difficult to capture by standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. To facilitate morphometric study of hippocampal subfields, ADNI introduced a high resolution (0.4 mm in plane) T2-weighted turbo spin-echo sequence that requires 8 min. With acceleration, the protocol can be acquired in 4 min. We performed a comparative study of hippocampal subfield volumes using standard and accelerated protocols on a Siemens Prisma 3T MRI in an independent sample of older adults that included 10 cognitively normal controls, 9 individuals with subjective cognitive decline, 10 with mild cognitive impairment, and 6 with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampal Subfields (ASHS) software was used to segment 9 primary labeled regions including hippocampal subfields and neighboring cortical regions. Intraclass correlation coefficients were computed for reliability tests between 4 and 8 min scans within and across the four groups. Pairwise group analyses were performed, covaried for age, sex and total intracranial volume, to determine whether the patterns of group differences were similar using 4 vs. 8 min scans. The 4 and 8 min protocols, analyzed by ASHS segmentation, yielded similar volumetric estimates for hippocampal subfields as well as comparable patterns of differences between study groups. The accelerated protocol can provide reliable imaging data for investigation of hippocampal subfields in AD-related MRI studies and the decreased scan time may result in less vulnerability to motion.

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Cong, S., Risacher, S. L., West, J. D., Wu, Y. C., Apostolova, L. G., Tallman, E., ... & Shen, L. (2018). Volumetric comparison of hippocampal subfields extracted from 4-minute accelerated vs. 8-minute high-resolution T2-weighted 3T MRI scans. Brain imaging and behavior, 12(6), 1583-1595. 10.1007/s11682-017-9819-3
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