Automated deep medullary vein quantification links vein voxel fraction to blood pressure, BMI, and lateral ventricle volume

In 131 cognitively healthy older adults, automated SWI-derived deep medullary vein voxel fraction (VVF) positively correlated with systolic blood pressure and BMI, and inversely with lateral ventricle volume (p<0.05).

• VVF association with white matter hyperintensity volume was significant only before adjustment for other factors.
• The automated DMV segmentation pipeline used multi-scale Jerman filtering on susceptibility-weighted images.
• The authors suggest the findings might reflect venous stasis related to vascular risk factors.

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