The following is a summary of “Reliability of paramagnetic rim lesion detection at 1.5T MRI in multiple sclerosis patients,” ...

Currently, patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and brain lesions on MRI suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS), are offered a confirmatory MRI scan after 6 months. Researchers in Italy ...

MRI provides a very sensitive reflection of the histopathological changes in multiple sclerosis ... and damage to normal-appearing (on MRI) brain tissue, especially the gray matter.

Researchers have long used one version of this technology, known as blood oxygen level–dependent functional MRI (BOLD fMRI), to study how the human brain works. This method detects changes in blood ...

to clinical disability and brain tissue integrity as measured with quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) metrics in a large cohort of MS patients.