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Dementia – Role of MRI

Frederik Barkhof, Marieke Hazewinkel, Maja Binnewijzend and Robin Smithuis

Alzheimer Centre and Image Analysis Centre, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam and the Alrijne Hospital, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands

Publicationdate 2012-01-09 / Update: 2022-03-03

This presentation will focus on the role of MRI in the diagnosis of dementia and related diseases.

We will discuss the following subjects:

• Systematic assessment of MR in dementia
• MR protocol for dementia
• Typical findings in the most common dementia syndromes
  • Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
  • Vascular Dementia (VaD)
  • Frontotemporal lobe dementia (FTLD)
• Short overview of neurodegenerative disorders which may be associated with dementia

• Introduction.
• Assessment of MR in Dementia
  • GCA-scale for Global Cortical Atrophy
  • MTA-scale for Medial Temporal lobe Atrophy
  • Fazekas scale for WM lesions
  • Normal ageing
  • Strategic infarctions
  • Koedam score for Parietal Atrophy
  • FDG-PET
• Specific Diseases
  • Alzheimers Disease
  • Presenile AD
  • Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
  • Vascular Dementia (VaD)
  • Strategic infarcts and small vessel disease
  • Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA)
  • Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD )
  • Dementia with Lewy bodies
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
  • Multi System Atrophy (MSA)
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
  • Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD)
  • Huntington Disease
  • Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencehalopathy (CADASIL)
  • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
• MR protocol
  • CT protocol