Faster MS Diagnosis with New MRI Technique

Credit: Joe Shlabotnik/Foter

• Multiple-sclerosis (MS) a chronic and episodic degenerative disease of the central nervous system
• Currently fewer then 50% of suspected cases found to have MS
  • New technique correctly categorised into MS or non-MS
  • Distinguishing MS lesions from microangiopathic lesions
• Using standard MRI, researchers ran a T2-weighted imaging process
• Study involved 40 patients from Nottingham University Hospitals
• Published in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal