Imaging chronic active lesions in multiple sclerosis: a consensus statement

F Bagnato, P Sati, CC Hemond, C Elliott, SA Gauthier… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Chronic active lesions (CAL) are an important manifestation of chronic inflammation in
multiple sclerosis (MS) and have implications for non-relapsing biological progression. In …

Quantitative myelin imaging with MRI and PET: an overview of techniques and their validation status

CWJ van der Weijden, E Biondetti, IW Gutmann… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Myelin is the protective sheath wrapped around axons, consisting of a phospholipid bilayer
with water between the wraps. The measurement of damage to the myelin sheaths, the …

[HTML][HTML] Depth-wise profiles of iron and myelin in the cortex and white matter using χ-separation: A preliminary study

S Lee, HG Shin, M Kim, J Lee - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
The in-vivo profiling of iron and myelin across cortical depths and underlying white matter
has important implications for advancing knowledge about their roles in brain development …

MR susceptibility separation for quantifying lesion paramagnetic and diamagnetic evolution in relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis

Z Zhu, N Naji, JH Esfahani, J Snyder… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion evolution may involve changes in diamagnetic
myelin and paramagnetic iron. Conventional quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) can …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping for Susceptibility Source Separation with Adaptive Relaxometric Constant Estimation (QSM-ARCS) from Solely Gradient …

H Kan, Y Uchida, S Kawaguchi, H Kasai, A Hiwatashi… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
To separate the contributions of paramagnetic and diamagnetic sources within a voxel, a
magnetic susceptibility source separation method based solely on gradient-echo data has …

Improved test–retest reliability of R 2* R _2^ ∗ and susceptibility quantification using multishot multi‐echo 3D EPI

Y Huang, L Chen, X Li, J Liu - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the potential of 3D EPI for improving the reliability of T
2* T _2^ ∗‐weighted data and quantification of R 2* R _2^ ∗ decay rate and susceptibility …

New Imaging Markers in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders: Smoldering Inflammation and the Central Vein Sign

CC Hemond, MI Gaitán, M Absinta… - Neuroimaging …, 2024 - neuroimaging.theclinics.com
Although the past decade has seen remarkable progress in the evaluation and management
of multiple sclerosis (MS) and its mimics, many diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment …

Quantitative susceptibility mapping for detection of kidney stones, hemorrhage differentiation, and cyst classification in ADPKD

K Schumacher, MR Prince, JD Blumenfeld… - Abdominal …, 2024 - Springer
Background and purpose The objective is to demonstrate feasibility of quantitative
susceptibility mapping (QSM) in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) …

Comparison between R2′‐based and R2*‐based χ‐separation methods: A clinical evaluation in individuals with multiple sclerosis

S Ji, J Jang, M Kim, H Lee, W Kim, J Lee… - NMR in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Susceptibility source separation, or χ‐separation, estimates diamagnetic (χdia) and
paramagnetic susceptibility (χpara) signals in the brain using local field and R2′(= R2 …

So You Want to Image Myelin Using MRI: Advanced Magnetic Susceptibility Imaging for Myelin

J Lee, S Ji, SH Oh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03690, 2024 - arxiv.org
In MRI, researchers have long endeavored to effectively visualize myelin distribution in the
brain, a pursuit with significant implications for both scientific research and clinical …