Abstract #5287

DTI Analysis in FLAIR-positive Lesions and Normal-Appearing White Matter in Young Adult Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Tao Wang¹, Sindhuja Govindarajan², M. Andrea Parra¹, Patricia Stefancin¹, Andrew Labella², Kenneth Wengler², Chuan Huang¹, Xiang He¹, Leigh Charvet³, Lauren Krupp³, and Tim Q Duong¹

¹Radiology, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, United States, ²Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, ³New York University, New York, NY, United States

Neuroimaging studies showed that there is abundant diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) research that has been done on older multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. By contrast, similar research is relatively sparse in young/pediatric MS patients. Our study is interested in discovering the effects of MS on young adult patients to see whether the same pattern as in older patients appears. Our results suggest that DTI diffusivity data provides insights in the pathophysiology of MS in young adults. Diffusivity data may serve as an imaging biomarker of early disease pathophysiology in MS.

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