Focal multiple sclerosis lesions abound in normal appearing white matter

Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1313-1323

  Mistry, Niraj ^a   Tallantyre, Emma C ^b   Dixon, Jennifer E ^a   Galazis, Nicolas ^a   Jaspan, Tim ^b   Morgan, Paul S ^b   Morris, Peter ^a   Evangelou, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FLAIR; MRI; multiple sclerosis; normal appearing white matter

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETA INTERFERON; GLATIRAMER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID ATTENUATION INVERSION RECOVERY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIZATION PREPARED RAPID ACQUISITION GRADIENT ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL APPEARING WHITE MATTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 80655149487     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458511415305     Document Type: Article

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