ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting & Exhibition ○ 20-26 April 2013 ○ Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
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OVERVIEW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This session is designed to teach
the audience about new advances in the use of MRI in multiple
sclerosis. The first speaker will provide an overview of the
pathological correlates of MRI findings in MS, with a specific focus
on quantitative MR based techniques and their higher pathological specificity than conventional T2-weighted imaging. The second speaker will describe how structural and functional MR techniques have helped quantifying damage and dysfunction in the different CNS compartments in MS patients, and have ameliorated the correlations with disease clinical manifestations. The third speaker will show characteristics MRI findings in patients at presentation with clinically isolated syndromes suggestive of MS; will illustrate the recent revision of the McDonald criteria, and will guide through MRI "red flags" which should help differentiating MS from other neurological conditions with similar clinical manifestations. The final speaker will discuss the use of conventional and modern MR based techniques to monitor disease evolution, either natural or modified by treatment, in MS patients and to derive prognostic biomarkers. |
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TARGET AUDIENCE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MD's and PhD's with an interest in the latest advances in the use of MR techniques in multiple sclerosis, from diagnosis and differential diagnosis, to improvement of understanding of disease pathophysiology and monitoring disease evolution and treatment response. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to: |
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PROGRAM |
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Moderators: Caterina Mainero, M.D. & Maria A. Rocca, M.D. |
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