FILIP, Pavel, Viktória KOKOŠOVÁ, Zdenek VALENTA, Marek BALÁŽ, Silvia MANGIA, Shalom MICHAELI and Lubomír VOJTÍŠEK. Utility of quantitative MRI metrics in brain ageing research. Frontiers in aging Neuroscience. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2023, vol. 15, March 2023, p. 1-10. ISSN 1663-4365. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2023.1099499.
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Original name Utility of quantitative MRI metrics in brain ageing research
Authors FILIP, Pavel (703 Slovakia, guarantor), Viktória KOKOŠOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Zdenek VALENTA (203 Czech Republic), Marek BALÁŽ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Silvia MANGIA, Shalom MICHAELI and Lubomír VOJTÍŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Frontiers in aging Neuroscience, LAUSANNE, FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2023, 1663-4365.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30210 Clinical neurology
Country of publisher Switzerland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 4.800 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/23:00132261
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2023.1099499
UT WoS 000954641900001
Keywords in English ageing; quantitative MRI; rotating frame relaxometry; diffusion weighted imaging; resting state functional MRI
Tags 14110127, 14110221, CF MAFIL, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Eva Dubská, učo 77638. Changed: 8/4/2024 09:24.
Abstract
The advent of new, advanced quantitative MRI metrics allows for in vivo evaluation of multiple biological processes highly relevant for ageing. The presented study combines several MRI parameters hypothesised to detect distinct biological characteristics as myelin density, cellularity, cellular membrane integrity and iron concentration. 116 healthy volunteers, continuously distributed over the whole adult age span, underwent a multi-modal MRI protocol acquisition. Scatterplots of individual MRI metrics revealed that certain MRI protocols offer much higher sensitivity to early adulthood changes while plateauing in higher age (e.g., global functional connectivity in cerebral cortex or orientation dispersion index in white matter), while other MRI metrics provided reverse ability-stable levels in young adulthood with sharp changes with rising age (e.g., T1 rho and T2 rho). Nonetheless, despite the previously published validations of specificity towards microstructural biology based on cytoarchitectonic maps in healthy population or alterations in certain pathologies, several metrics previously hypothesised to be selective to common measures failed to show similar scatterplot distributions, pointing to further confounding factors directly related to age. Furthermore, other metrics, previously shown to detect different biological characteristics, exhibited substantial intercorrelations, be it due to the nature of the MRI protocol itself or co-dependence of relevant biological microstructural processes. All in all, the presented study provides a unique basis for the design and choice of relevant MRI parameters depending on the age group of interest. Furthermore, it calls for caution in simplistic biological inferences in ageing based on one simple MRI metric, even though previously validated under other conditions. Complex multi-modal approaches combining several metrics to extract the shared subcomponent will be necessary to achieve the desired goal of histological MRI.
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LM2018129, research and development projectName: Národní infrastruktura pro biologické a medicínské zobrazování Czech-BioImaging
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
90250, large research infrastructuresName: Czech-BioImaging III
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