Maria Janina Wendebourg, Matthias Weigel, Claudia Weidensteiner, Laura Sander, Eva Kesenheimer, Nicole Naumann, Tanja Haas, Philipp Madoerin, Nathalie Braun, Christoph Neuwirth, Markus Weber, Kathleen Jahn, Ludwig Kappos, Cristina Granziera, Kathi Schweikert, Michael Sinnreich, Oliver Bieri, Regina Schlaeger
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), there is an unmet need for more precise patient characterization through quantitative, ideally operator-independent, assessments of disease extent and severity. Radially sampled averaged magnetization inversion recovery acquisitions (rAMIRA) magnetic resonance imaging enables gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) area quantitation in the cervical and thoracic spinal cord (SC) with optimized contrast. We aimed to investigate rAMIRA-derived SC GM and SC WM areas and their association with clinical phenotype and disability in ALS...
March 11, 2024: European Journal of Neurology