{"id":1774,"date":"2014-06-01T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:08:52","slug":"a-new-tool-to-track-multiple-sclerosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-new-tool-to-track-multiple-sclerosis\/","title":{"rendered":"A new tool to track multiple sclerosis<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1767\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MRI-e1401654684468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1767\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1767\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MRI-e1401654684468.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers from the University of Western Ontario developed a new tool using this 3T Siemens MRI system to track multiple sclerosis progression in patients. (Photo Credit: Ravi Menon)\" width=\"495\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers from the University of Western Ontario developed a new tool using this 3T Siemens MRI system to track multiple sclerosis progression in patients. (Photo Credit: Ravi Menon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new tool provides a means to track multiple sclerosis (MS) progression and could lead to early diagnosis, a new study shows. The method &#8211; called Quantitative Susceptibility Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) &#8211; allows researchers to track small changes in the magnetic field of the brain caused by iron distribution and white matter lesions that are linked to MS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They found that lesions appeared in the same areas in all MS patients which tells researchers where to look for the earliest possible diagnosis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This technique could be readily extended to other hospitals with MRI scanners, but it could take at least 5 years for it to be used as a valid MS diagnostic tool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsna.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1148\/radiol.14132475?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em>Radiology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 4, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.uwo.ca\/research\/biomed\/Faculty\/Menon,R.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ravi Menon<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Western Ontario, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new tool provides a means to track multiple sclerosis (MS) progression and could lead to early diagnosis, a new study shows. The method &#8211; called Quantitative Susceptibility Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) &#8211; allows researchers to track small changes in the magnetic field of the brain caused by iron distribution and white matter lesions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[992,51,53,1669,50,476,1673],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-brain","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-ontario","tag-public-health","tag-radiology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MRI-e1401654684468.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-sC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}