Nan-Jie Gong1,
Chun-Sing Wong1, Chun-Chung Chan2, Lam-Ming Leung2,
Queenie Chan3
1Diagnostic
Radiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, China; 2United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong, China; 3Philips
Healthcare, Hong Kong, China
Using both quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) and diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) methods, we investigated age-related iron depositions in subcortical gray matters of globus pallidus (GP) and putamen (Pu). Besides, the contribution of iron deposition with aging to microstructural alterations in deep gray matter has also been studied by testing correlations between DKI parameters and susceptibility.