The ‘Swallow Tail’ Appearance of the Healthy Nigrosome – A New Accurate Test of Parkinson's Disease: A Case-Control and Retrospective Cross-Sectional MRI Study at 3T

• Stefan T. Schwarz ,

  * E-mail: stefan.schwarz@nottingham.ac.uk

  Affiliation Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Mohammed Afzal,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Paul S. Morgan,

  Affiliation Medical Physics, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Nin Bajaj,

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Penny A. Gowland,

  Affiliation Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Dorothee P. Auer

  Affiliation Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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