New MRI technique offers faster diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

01 Feb 2016 11:45:00.000

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A new way of using MRI scanners to look for evidence of multiple sclerosis in the brain has been successfully tested by researchers at The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological condition which affects around 100,000 people in the UK. It is notoriously difficult to diagnose as it has many symptoms but not all sufferers experience all of them and the disease can progress at different rates. MRI scans have been used as a diagnostic tool to detect white matter lesions in the brain but these are not always an indicator of the disease. 

Now a research team at Nottingham has found a way to use clinical MRI to distinguish between MS lesions and other brain white spots which are found in MS. The study is published in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal.

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More information is available from Dr Nikos Evangelou in the School of Medicine, University of Nottingham on +44 (0)115 970 9735, nikos.evangelou@nottingham.ac.uk

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