QSMetric Potential Indications – Vascular dementia
Discover a potential indication of QSMetric™ technology.
Vascular dementia is a neurodegenerative disease with multiple aetiologies. Damage to cerebral nervous tissue may be due to ischaemic lesions involving small vessels, multiple infarcts, cognitive decline following a stroke or the association of these deficits with another neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s disease.
As with many dementias, diagnosis is based on clinical assessment of the patient, stepwise deterioration in cognitive function and evaluation by CT scan or MRI.
QSM, with its ability to highlight microbleeds and areas of iron accumulation, could provide objective information on the aetiology of the disease.
- Linck et al, “Neurodegeneration of the Substantia Nigra after Ipsilateral Infarct: MRI R2* Mapping and Relationship to Clinical Outcome”, Radiology, 2019
- Bandt et al, “Clinical Integration of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) MRI into Neurosurgical Practice”, World Neurosurgery, 2019
