A robust method for the detection of small changes in relaxation parameters and free water content in the vicinity of the substantia nigra in Parkinson’s disease patients

• Krzysztof Dzieciol,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4 (INM-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Elene Iordanishvili,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4 (INM-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Zaheer Abbas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4 (INM-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Adjmal Nahimi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Michael Winterdahl,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• N. Jon Shah

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: n.j.shah@fz-juelich.de

  Affiliations Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4 (INM-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 11 (INM-11), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA-BRAIN)—Translational Medicine, Aachen, Germany, Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8151-6169

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