Value of Optic Nerve MRI in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Management: A MAGNIMS Position Paper and Future Perspectives

Jaume Sastre-Garriga1, Angela Vidal-Jordana1, Ahmed T Toosy1

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (J.S.-G., A.V.-J., X.M., M.T.), Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat), Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; NMR Research Unit (A.T.T.), Queen Square MS Centre, Department of Neuroinflammation, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology and Division of Neuroradiology (C.E.), Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Graz, Austria; Translational Imaging in Neurology (ThINk) Basel (C.G.), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel; Neurology Department and MS Center, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Department of Neurology (J.F.), Rigshospitalet-Glostrup, and University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark; NMR Research Unit (O.C.), Queen Square MS Centre, Department of Neuroinflammation, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research, United Kingdom; Neuroimaging Research Unit (M.F.), Division of Neuroscience and Neurology Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; and Section of Neuroradiology and Magnetic Resonance Unit (D.P., A.R.), Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Neurology
|July 17, 2024
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