Reduced axial diffusivity and increased mode and T2 signals in cerebral white matter of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using tract-based spatial statistics
- Authors
- Lee, Sekwang; Pyun, Sung-Bom; Tae, Woo-Suk
- Issue Date
- 7월-2019
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Tract-based spatial statistics; Brain stem
- Citation
- NEURORADIOLOGY, v.61, no.7, pp.795 - 801
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NEURORADIOLOGY
- Volume
- 61
- Number
- 7
- Start Page
- 795
- End Page
- 801
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/64210
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00234-019-02178-0
- ISSN
- 0028-3940
- Abstract
- PurposeChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is considered to be a multi-systemic disease involving pathological changes in the brain. This study investigated how diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters in patients with non-hypoxemic COPD differ from those in controls. Moreover, we tried to examine whether the mode of anisotropy (MO) reflects early changes in white matter (WM) integrity in COPD.MethodsDT images were obtained from 13 male COPD patients and 13 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Raw DT images were processed using an automated tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) pipeline. DTI scalars of fractional anisotropy (FA); axial, radial, and mean diffusivities (AD, RD, and MD, respectively); MO; and raw T2 signal (S0) were statistically compared between COPD patients and controls. TBSS methods were used for analysis.ResultsIn patients with COPD, decreased AD was observed in the temporal stem (TS), corticospinal tract (CST), thalamus, subiculum, crus cerebri, and midbrain. Increased MO values were found in the corpus callosum, CST, internal capsule, cerebellar peduncle (CP), and medial lemniscus (ML). Additionally, increased S0 was found in the TS, CP, pons, and cerebellar tonsil (threshold-free cluster enhancement to a family-wise error rate of p<0.05).ConclusionThe results revealed decreased AD and increased MO scalars in COPD patients compared with the controls, although there were no differences in FA, RD, and MD scalars. Decreased AD and increased MO scalars may reflect early changes in WM integrity in COPD patients.
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