Research Advances in Structure Imaging of Vascular cognitive impairment: a Review

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5765.2017.01.009

Abstract

Abstract:

Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) include all levels of cognitive loss from mild deficits in one or more cognitive domains to a broad dementia syndrome due to cerebral vessel disease or the risks of vascular diseases. Cerebral vascular disease could manifest corresponding cerebral imageological changes, however, the conclusion of association study between those changes and cognitive injury are still in discrepancy. The structural imaging research of VCI mainly uses structure magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging technology to study on VCI induced changes in brain microstructure and its relationship with cognition through the aspects of the position of stroke, morphological changes of the brain and the changes of cerebral white matter structure. Here is to make a review of the structure imaging research advances in VCI.

Key words: Vascular cognitive impairment; Brain structure; Magnetic resonance imaging

摘要：

血管性认知障碍（vascular cognitive impairment，VCI）是一类由脑血管病危险因素或脑血管病引起的从轻度认知障碍到痴呆的综合征，脑血管病本身可以出现相应的脑影像学改变，这些病变和认知损伤的关系研究结论尚不统一。VCI的结构影像学研究主要采用结构磁共振成像（magnetic resonance imaging，MRI）、弥散加权成像和弥散张量成像技术，分别从卒中位置、大脑形态学及大脑白质结构等方面研究VCI引起的大脑微观结构变化及其与认知之间的关系。本文回顾了利用结构影像学对VCI的研究进展。

关键词: 血管性认知障碍; 脑结构; 磁共振成像

赵维纳，于洋，孙丽，尹昌浩. 血管性认知障碍的结构影像学研究进展[J]. 中国卒中杂志, 2017, 12(01): 51-54.

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