| US 7,613,495 B2 | ||
| MRI detection and staging of Parkinson's disease and detection of progressive supranuclear palsy | ||
| Michael Hutchinson, New York, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Advanced MRI Technologies, LLC, Sebastopol, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 30, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/997,894. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/250301, filed on Nov. 30, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2002/0115930 A1, Aug. 22, 2002 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61B 5/055 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 600—410 | 17 Claims |
| 1. A method of detecting Parkinson's disease (PD) through operating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus performing
MRI of brain tissue that includes substantia nigra pars compacts (SNc) tissue comprising:
obtaining a gray matter suppressed (GMS) MRI signal of brain tissue that includes said SNc tissue by operating said MRI apparatus;
obtaining a white matter suppressed (WMS) MRI signal of brain tissue that includes said SNc tissue by operating said MRI apparatus;
processing information from said GMS and WMS MRI signals to produce and present resultant signals indicative of PD by computer-processing;
and
including forming and displaying, by computer processing, GMS and WMS images using information from said GMS and WMS signals.
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