Accuracy of routine fat-suppressed FLAIR and diffusion-weighted images in detecting clinically evident optic neuritis.

Conclusion:Being more specific, but not as sensitive, as dedicated CET1WI in acute ON, axial fat-suppressed FLAIR likely has additional value in evaluating for acute ON in "routine" brain MR protocols evaluating for demyelinating disease, while DWI may be hampered by artifacts. PMID: 23386735 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Acta Radiologica - February 5, 2013 Category: Radiology Authors: McKinney AM, Lohman BD, Sarikaya B, Benson M, Benson MT, Lee MS Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research

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