Morphometric Assessment of Aging Impact in Cranial/Ventricles’ Volumes and CT/MRI Imaging Systems Parameters

Emad M. Mukhtar Alasar¹, Mohammed A. Ali Omer^{2, 3,} and Ghada A. E. Sakin¹

¹Department of Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine, College of Medical Radiologic Science, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum-Sudan

²Department of Radiology, College of Applied Medical Science, King Khalid University, Abha-KSA

³Department of Radiologic Technology Department, College of Applied Medical Science, Qassim University, Buraidah-KSA

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Emad M. Mukhtar Alasar, Mohammed A. Ali Omer and Ghada A. E. Sakin. Morphometric Assessment of Aging Impact in Cranial/Ventricles’ Volumes and CT/MRI Imaging Systems Parameters. American Journal of Public Health Research. 2019; 7(4):157-160. doi: 10.12691/AJPHR-7-4-5

Abstract

A retrospective study aims to assess aging impact in cranial/ventricles volumes and the effect in signal intensity of imaging modalities (CT & MRI). The analysis of collected data using Excel and SPSS showed that: aging has less significant (R² =0.4) impact on ventricle volume generally and the correlation best fitted to equation: Volume = 1.46 age - 40.742. The impact of aging in ventricles volume was significant (p = 0.05) increment after 69 years with prominent effect among male relative to female; and steady before the age of 69 years old. Aging had less significant decreasing impact (R² = 0.3) in signal intensity (T₁, T₂) of white and gray matter and having prominent high signal intensity of white mater relative to gray mater. The age showed high significant (R² = 0.8) reducing impact in white matter HU that fitted to equations of the following forms: HU = 0.53 age + 9.6864; while there is an increasing impact in gray matter HU that fitted to: HU = -0.26 age + 40.093.

Keywords

volumetric, cranium, ventricle, ageing-impact

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