Abstract #2923

Preclinical Study of Stroke Using T2relaxometry and Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Dushyant Kumar¹,², Peter Ludewig³, Ashish Raj⁴, Tim Magnus³, Jens Fiehler¹, Christoph Heesen⁵, Susanne Siemonsen¹,², Jan Sedlacik¹

¹Neuroradiology, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany; ²Multiple Sclerosis Imaging Center, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany; ³Neurology, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany; ⁴Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Newyork, NY, United States; ⁵Institute for Neuroimmunology and Clinical MS Research, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

Problem: White matter (WM) lesions are shown to have prognostic values in predicting stroke occurrence and recurrence in patients. Though T2-weighted images can be used to detect the WM lesion and stroke core, it lacks in specificity.