Open AccessIs It Possible to Discriminate Active MS Lesions with Diffusion Weighted Imaging?
Author(s) -
Sena Ünal,
Elif Peker,
Şeyda Erdoğan,
M Ilhan Erden
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the eurasian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1308-8742
pISSN - 1308-8734
DOI - 10.5152/eurasianjmed.2019.18473
Subject(s) - medicine , multiple sclerosis , diffusion mri , effective diffusion coefficient , white matter , nuclear medicine , lesion , magnetic resonance imaging , gadolinium , radiology , pathology , materials science , psychiatry , metallurgy
Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are at a risk of gadolinium deposition because of multiple control imaging. Therefore, it is important to determine biomarkers that can differentiate active and chronic lesions without using contrast agent. This study aimed to assess mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values and signal intensities (SI) on diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) values of active and nonactive lesions.