Document Type
Case Series
Abstract
Background: Although clinical data are still used to suspect multiple sclerosis (MS), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now included in the disease's clinical guidelines.
Aim: Evaluate the clinical importance of recent MRI techniques in multiple sclerosis.
Patients and methods: This study had been conducted on twenty patients regardless their sex having MS. All patients had been evaluated by full history taking, clinical assessment and MRI examination including recent MRI modalities, double inversion recovery, spectroscopy, FLAIR in axial, sagittal and coronal planes and diffusion Tensor imaging.
Results: We found that DIR and T2W_TSE differed significantly from FLAIR and T2W_TSE regarding White Matter (WM) – gray matter (GM). DIR and FLAIR differed significantly from DIR and T2W_TSE regarding WM - CSF. DIR and FLAIR differed significantly from DIR and T2W_TSE regarding GM - CSF. Also, FLAIR differed significantly T2W_TSE regarding Lesion - WM. DIR and FLAIR, DIR and T2W_TSE & FLAIR and T2W_TSE differed significantly regarding Lesion – CSF.
Conclusion: we can conclude that DIR can add a powerful diagnostic value or act as another option for standardized T2W and FLAIR. Therefore, we intensely recommended adding a DIR imaging to imaging protocol of multiple sclerosis.
Keywords
Multiple Sclerosis, MRI, double inversion recovery
How to Cite This Article
Okaz, Ahmed Hamed; Yassin, Abd-Ellah Nazeer; Zidan, Ahmed Mohammed; and Rashad, Mohamed Hamed
(2023)
"The Role of New MRI Modalities in Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis,"
Al-Azhar International Medical Journal: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58675/2682-339X.1631
