Xinyi Wang Author

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Study of diffusion tensor imaging in the identification of mild cognitive impairment

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Xinyi Wang

Background and Objective:
We aimed to determine whether and how diffusion tensor
imaging(DTI) could identify mild cognitive impairment
(MCI).
Materials and methods:A total of 50 subjects were recruited
for a multi-modal imaging (3T MRI and DTI) study :
mild cognitive impairment (MCI) (n = 30),cognitive normal(
CN) (n = 20). Measure and compare the region of
interests (ROI): ADC(apparent diffusion coefficient) and
FA(fractional anisotropy) values of bilateral hippocampus,
bilateral temporal lobe, bilateral frontal lobe, genu
and splenium of corpus callosum(CC),bilateral posterior
cingulate gyrus. The correlation between the FA values of
MCI group and the sub-item scores of MOCA scale was
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