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Abstract #4901

FLAIR3Phase: a new synthetic MRI contrast for paramagnetic rim lesions detection in multiple sclerosis

Colin Vanden Bulcke1,2, Nicolas Delinte2, and Benoît Macq2
1Institute of Neurosciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 2Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Synopsis

Keywords: Multi-Contrast, Multiple Sclerosis, Paramagnetic Rim LesionsChronic active multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions are visible on susceptibility-based MRI as paramagnetic rim lesions (PRL); these lesions are characterized by severe tissue damage and strongly correlate with disease severity. PRL assessment is usually performed manually on unwrapped-filtered phase images. However, PRL assessment is associated with high intra/inter-rater variability due to the poor visibility of PRL and to the lack of standardized imaging protocols/guidelines for their detection. Here, we propose a new synthetic contrast called FLAIR3Phase to augment PRL assessment workflow and to reduce rater variability.

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