The Role of Imaging in the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

  • W. I. McDonald
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Abstract

Imaging of lesions of the brain in multiple sclerosis has been possible since the introduction of gamma scanning but as Young et al. (1981) have shown, NMR imaging is more sensitive than any other technique at present available. The NMR Group at the National Hospital has been investigating the pattern of abnormalities seen in NMR images of patients with multiple sclerosis, the frequency of multiple lesions in patients with primary isolated syndromes of the kind seen in multiple sclerosis (e. g. acute optic neuritis) and the specificity of the changes for multiple sclerosis. We have used a Picker superconducting NMR system imaging proton, initially at 0.25 Tesla and subsequently at 0.5 Tesla. Both spin-echo and inversion-recovery sequences were used. Standard diagnostic criteria have been used in the classification of the patients.

Keywords

Multiple Sclerosis Optic Neuritis National Hospital Cerebellar Degeneration Transient Global Amnesia 
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