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ArticleThe Indian journal of radiology & imaging

Evaluation of cerebral microstructural changes in adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea by MR diffusion kurtosis imaging using a whole-brain atlas.

Sameer Vyas, Paramjeet Singh, Niranjan Khandelwal, Varan Govind, Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal, Manju Mohanty

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Article in The Indian journal of radiology & imaging. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  2. Microstructural brain abnormalities and associated neurocognitive dysfunction in obstructive sleep apnea: a pilot study with diffusion kurtosis imaging.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2024
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sameer VyasDepartment of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Paramjeet SinghDepartment of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Niranjan KhandelwalDepartment of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Varan GovindDepartment of Radiology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Ashutosh Nath AggarwalDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Manju MohantyDepartment of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · INUniversity of Miami · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cognitive impairment is well-recognized, but little is known about neural derangements that underlie this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) using a whole-brain atlas to comprehensively assess microstructural tissue changes in the brain of patients with OSA.

methodsThis prospective study was conducted in 20 patients with moderate-to-severe OSA and 20 age- and gender-matched controls. MRI data acquisition was performed with 3 Tesla and data was analyzed using a whole-brain atlas. DKI data were processed and transformed into a brain template space to obtain various kurtosis parameters including axial kurtosis (AK), radial kurtosis (RK), mean kurtosis (MK), and kurtosis fractional anisotropy (KFA) using a 189-region brain atlas in the same template space. These kurtosis measurements were further analyzed using a student

resultsSignificant differences (

conclusionThe kurtosis parameters are more sensitive in demonstrating abnormalities in brain tissue structural organization at the microstructural level before any detectable changes appear in conventional MRI or other imaging modalities.

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Kurtosis imagingMRIobstructive sleep apnea

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