Risk and Determinants of Dementia in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Brain Subcortical Vascular Changes: A Study of Clinical, Neuroimaging, and Biological Markers—The VMCI-Tuscany Study: Rationale, Design, and Methodology

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Sequences</td><td align="center"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (i) Axial high-resolution contiguous 3D T1-weighted images with isotropic voxels (MPRAGE sequence)</td><td align="center"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (ii) Axial T2-weighted images (FLAIR sequence)</td><td align="center"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (iii) Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)</td><td align="center"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (iv) Functional MRI (motor or cognitive tasks)</td><td align="center"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> (v) T2*-sensitive echo-planar imaging (EPI) sequence</td><td align="center"></td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

International Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Table 2: Risk and Determinants of Dementia in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Brain Subcortical Vascular Changes: A Study of Clinical, Neuroimaging, and Biological Markers—The VMCI-Tuscany Study: Rationale, Design, and Methodology 

Table 2 | Risk and Determinants of Dementia in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Brain Subcortical Vascular Changes: A Study of Clinical, Neuroimaging, and Biological Markers—The VMCI-Tuscany Study: Rationale, Design, and Methodology 