BackgroundProgressive supranuclear palsy is a neuropathologically defined disease, and many studies worked on detecting the diagnostic use of Magnetic resonance imaging. This article purposed to detect the diagnostic performance of Magnetic resonance parkinsonism index (MRPI). MethodsWe systematically searched electronic database PubMed for articles published since 1996 using the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Society for PSP (NINDS-SPSP) criteria as the diagnostic standard. Methodological quality was assessed by Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 (QUADAS-2) and software Review Manager 5.3, software STATA 14.0 and meta-disc were applied in statistics analysis. ResultsTotally 14 articles were included in this article. MRPI is proved to have pooled sensitivity of 0.98, pooled specificity of 0.99 in differentiating patients with Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) from patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and the area under the Receiver operating characteristic curve value was 1.00. ConclusionMRPI shows excellent performance in differentiating patients with PSP from patients with PD, the clinical usage of MRPI in auxiliary diagnosis of PSP is recommended.