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Brain perivascular space imaging across the human lifespan

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NEUROIMAGE
卷 271, 期 -, 页码 -

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120009

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Perivascular spaces; Waste clearance; Lifespan; Aging; Morphology; Neuroimaging; Cerebrovascular

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Enlarged perivascular spaces (PVS) are biomarkers for vascular pathology and their changes with age, sex, and cognitive performance were characterized in a large cohort using MRI data. Age was found to be associated with wider and more numerous PVS, with different spatial patterns of enlargement. Males had higher PVS burden than females, with differing morphological changes over time. These findings contribute to our understanding of perivascular physiology and serve as a reference for pathological alterations.
Enlarged perivascular spaces (PVS) are considered a biomarker for vascular pathology and are observed in normal aging and neurological conditions; however, research on the role of PVS in health and disease are hindered by the lack of knowledge regarding the normative time course of PVS alterations with age. To this end, we characterized the influence of age, sex and cognitive performance on PVS anatomical characteristics in a large cross-sectional cohort ( similar to 1400) of healthy subjects between 8 and 90 years of age using multimodal structural MRI data. Our results show age is associated with wider and more numerous MRI-visible PVS over the course of the lifetime with spatially-varying patterns of PVS enlargement trajectories. In particular, regions with low PVS volume fraction in childhood are associated with rapid age-related PVS enlargement (e.g., temporal regions), while regions with high PVS volume fraction in childhood are associated with minimal age-related PVS alterations (e.g., limbic regions). PVS burden was significantly elevated in males compared to females with differing morphological time courses with age. Together, these findings contribute to our understanding of perivascular physiology across the healthy lifespan and provide a normative reference for the spatial distribution of PVS enlargement patterns to which pathological alterations can be compared.

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