Soon these tests could catch early Parkinson's.
Now, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Israel, have worked on a different way to diagnose the disease, called
. The qMRI scans looked at a part of the deep brain called the striatum, which helps the body move voluntarily and rapidly deteriorates as the disease progresses.found that their qMRI analysis, a technique they compared to taking the same photograph with different lighting, was able to show changes in the tissue structure within distinct sections of the striatum. Before, this technique would have only been possible to see in lab tests after a patient had died.
"When you don't have measurements, you don't know what is normal and what is abnormal brain structure, and what is changing during the progress of the disease," explained researcher Aviv Mezer, a professor at Hebrew University.Next, the team hopes to examine tiny changes in other regions of the brain using this technique. Mezer said he anticipates the scans will be used in clinical settings three to five years down the road.
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