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- The study investigates the link between age-related white matter hyperintensities in the brain and changes in cerebral magnetization transfer ratio (MTR).
- It compares MR imaging results from young individuals to two groups of elderly individuals (one with minimal and one with abundant WM hyperintensities).
- Findings indicate that normal-appearing brain tissue shows more degradation in elderly individuals, but these changes are not directly related to the presence of white matter hyperintensities, suggesting they may stem from different causes.
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Background And Purpose: Cerebral white matter (WM) hyperintensities are a frequent finding in elderly people, and lowering of cerebral magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) has been observed. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between age-related WM hyperintensities and MTR changes in the brain.
Methods: We performed MR imaging in a group of young subjects, a group of elderly individuals with minimal WM hyperintensities, and a group of elderly individuals with abundant WM hyperintensities. In addition, we performed volumetric MTR analysis of the whole brain and of the normal-appearing WM (NAWM) in these groups.
Results: Volumetric MTR parameters differed between elderly and young patients. Mean MTR +/- standard error of the mean (SEM) was 34.0% +/- 0.12% in the young, 33.0% +/- 0.08% in the elderly with minimal WM hyperintensities, 32.8% +/- 0.09%) in the group with abundant WM hyperintensities. Peak height (number of voxels +/- SEM) was 122 +/- 1.2 in the young, 99 +/- 1.5 in the elderly with minimal WM hyperintensities, and 98 +/- 1.6 in the group with abundant WM hyperintensities. Mean MTR of NAWM was lower in the elderly compared with the young (36.7% +/- 0.12%) but did not differ between subjects with minimal (36.0% +/- 0.11%) and those with abundant WM hyperintensities (35.9% +/- 0.13%).
Conclusion: Our results show that aging gives rise to changes in normal-appearing brain tissue. These changes, which can be detected on magnetization transfer imaging, seem to have no relationship with age-related WM hyperintensities and might have a different etiology.
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