Study of movement disorders and brain iron by MR

JN Rutledge, SK Hilal, AJ Silver… - American journal of …, 1987 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Heavily T2-weighted high-field MR images provide a unique opportunity for the evaluation of
the extrapyramidal motor system. The images are affected by the presence of small amounts …

Parkinson plus syndrome: diagnosis using high field MR imaging of brain iron.

BP Drayer, W Olanow, P Burger, GA Johnson… - Radiology, 1986 - pubs.rsna.org
The distribution of iron in the brain was analyzed using high field strength (1.5 T) magnetic
resonance (MR) imaging in 14 healthy control individuals and six patients with Parkinson …

Basal ganglia iron content in Parkinson's disease measured with magnetic resonance

FQ Ye, PS Allen, WRW Martin - Movement Disorders: Official …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The possibility of using magnetic resonance (MR) to evaluate the severity of the pathological
changes of Parkinson's disease (PD) is suggested by the known accumulation of iron in the …

Magnetic resonance imaging of dystonic states

JN Rutledge, SK Hilal, AJ Silver, R Defendini, S Fahn - Dystonia 2, 1988 - inis.iaea.org
[en] Interest in movement disorders is heightened by the recent capability of mapping the
distribution of macromolecular complexes of Fe (III) in the brain using heavily T2-weighted …

Reduced signal intensity on MR images of thalamus and putamen in multiple sclerosis: increased iron content?

B Drayer, P Burger, B Hurwitz… - American Journal of …, 1987 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
High-field-strength (1.5-T) MR imaging was used to evaluate 47 patients with definite
multiple sclerosis and 42 neurologically normal control patients. Abnormal, multiple foci of …

Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in parkinsonian disorders

O Sitburana, WG Ondo - Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2009 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly integrated into neurological diagnostics.
In addition to functional MRI, a large number of sequences (T1W, T2W, PD, T2* W gradient …

Imaging of brain iron by magnetic resonance: T2 relaxation at different field strengths

JF Schenck - Journal of the neurological sciences, 1995 - Elsevier
Soon after the advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MR1) as a diagnostic modality in the
1980s, it was recognized that some of the contrast found in brain imaging correlated with …

MRI, brain iron and experimental Parkinson's disease

S Hall, JN Rutledge, T Schallert - Journal of the neurological sciences, 1992 - Elsevier
Abnormal levels of brain iron have been reported in parkinsonism, which is characterized
principally by degeneration of dopaminergic (DA) nigrostriatal neurons. There are conflicting …

Basal ganglia: significance of signal hypointensity on T2-weighted MR images.

BP Drayer - Radiology, 1989 - pubs.rsna.org
T HE unique finding of signal hypointensity on T2-weighted mag-netic resonance(MR)
images obtained at high field strength is normally noted in the globus pallidus, red nucleus …

The anatomical basis of symptomatic hemidystonia

CD Marsden, JA Obeso, JJ Zarranz, AE Lang - Brain, 1985 - academic.oup.com
Twenty-eight patients with focal (arm or leg) or hemidystonia due to tumour, arteriovenous
malformation, infarction, haemorrhage or hemiatrophy are described. All had typical dystonic …