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ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2021

Multi-compartment analysis of the complex gradient-echo signal quantifies myelin breakdown in premanifest Huntington's disease.

Chiara Casella, Elena Kleban, Anne E Rosser, Elizabeth Coulthard, Hugh Rickards, Fabrizio Fasano, Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Derek K Jones

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Article in NeuroImage. Clinical, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Chiara CasellaCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF 24 4HQ, UK. Electronic address: chiara.casella@kcl.ac.uk.
Elena KlebanCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF 24 4HQ, UK.
Anne E RosserDepartment of Neurology and Psychological Medicine, Hayden Ellis Building, Maindy Road, Cardiff CF24 4HQ, UK; School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK.
Elizabeth CoulthardClinical Neurosciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK.
Hugh RickardsBirmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, 50 Summer Hill Road, Birmingham B1 3RB, UK; Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Fabrizio FasanoSiemens Healthcare Ltd, Camberly, UK; Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany.
Claudia Metzler-BaddeleyCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF 24 4HQ, UK.
Derek K JonesCardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF 24 4HQ, UK.
Cardiff University · GBSiemens Healthcare (Germany) · DEUniversity of Birmingham · GBUniversity of Bristol · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L010305/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 096646/Z/11/ZWellcome Trust 104943/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 204005/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

White matter (WM) alterations have been identified as a relevant pathological feature of Huntington's disease (HD). Increasing evidence suggests that WM changes in this disorder are due to alterations in myelin-associated biological processes. Multi-compartmental analysis of the complex gradient-echo MRI signal evolution in WM has been shown to quantify myelin in vivo, therefore pointing to the potential of this technique for the study of WM myelin changes in health and disease. This study first characterized the reproducibility of metrics derived from the complex multi-echo gradient-recalled echo (mGRE) signal across the corpus callosum in healthy participants, finding highest reproducibility in the posterior callosal segment. Subsequently, the same analysis pipeline was applied in this callosal region in a sample of premanifest HD patients (n = 19) and age, sex and education matched healthy controls (n = 21). In particular, we focused on two myelin-associated derivatives: i. the myelin water signal fraction (f

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Huntington DiseaseMyelin SheathBrainHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingReproducibility of ResultsExecutive functionFrequency difference mappingMyelinPremanifest Huntington’s diseaseThree-pool model

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PMID33865029
PMCPMC8079666
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