Multiple sclerosis plaques may undergo continuous myelin degradation: a cross-sectional study with myelin and axon-related quantitative magnetic resonance imaging metrics.
Tomoko MaekawaAkifumi HagiwaraKazumasa YokoyamaMasaaki HoriChristina AndicaShohei FujitaKoji KamagataAkihiko WadaOsamu AbeYuji TomizawaNobutaka HattoriShigeki AokiPublished in: Neuroradiology (2021)
These results suggested that myelin in plaques undergoes continuous damage, more so than axons. Myelin imaging with SyMRI and NODDI may be useful for the quantitative assessment of temporal changes in MS plaques.