Abstract #0037

Developing a Universally Useful, Useable and Used Standardized MRI Protocol for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

David K.B. Li¹, Frederik Barkhof², Scott Newsome³, June Halper⁴, Lori Saslow⁴, Brenda Banwell⁵, Laura Barlow⁶, Kathleen Costello⁷, Peter Damiri⁸, Marilyn Maes⁹, Sarah Morrow¹⁰, Jiwon Oh¹¹, Friedemann Paul¹², Patrick Quarterman¹³, Daniel Reich¹⁴, Jason Shewchuk¹⁵, Russell Shinohara¹⁶, Wim Van Hecke¹⁷, Kim van de Ven¹⁸, Amy Verrinder⁹, Mitchell Wallin¹⁹, Jerry Wolinsky²⁰, and Anthony Traboulsee²¹

¹Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, ⁴Consortium of MS Centers, Hackensack, NJ, United States, ⁵Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States, ⁶UBC MRI Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁷National MS Society, New York, NY, United States, ⁸Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, Cherry Hill, NJ, United States, ⁹Cortechs Labs, San Diego, CA, United States, ¹⁰London MS Clinic, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ¹¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, ¹³General Electric Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, United States, ¹⁴Translational Neuroradiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States, ¹⁵University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁶University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, ¹⁷icometrix, Leuven, Belgium, ¹⁸BIU MR, Philips Healthcare, Eindhoven, Netherlands, ¹⁹VA MS Medical Center of Excellence-East, Washington, DC, United States, ²⁰McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States, ²¹Neurology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Standardized MRI protocol and clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and follow-up of multiple sclerosis (MS) have been available for over a decade. These guidelines are useful and useable, but not yet widely used. An expert panel with representatives from CMSC, NAIMS, NMSS, MSAA and MRI vendors updated the MRI protocol with the vision of creating international guidelines to be universally adopted as the standard of care for use of MRI in MS. Novel methods of disseminating information to payers, patient groups, MRI Centers and MRI vendors so that the MRI protocol will be used were discussed and will be explored.

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