Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging of Substantia Nigra Is a Sensitive Method for Early Diagnosis and Disease Evaluation in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

General characteristics of study participants.

	PD group	Control group	value
Gender (M/F)	26/46	28/44	0.731
Age (years)	66.83 ± 5.41	66.08 ± 6.77	0.464
Duration (months)	13.50 ± 6.79	N
H-Y staging	1.67 (1-2)	N
UPDRS III scores	14.94 ± 3.86	N