A cross-sectional multicentre study of multishell diffusion MRI in multiple sclerosis

IF 2.9 3区医学 Q2 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Multiple sclerosis and related disorders Pub Date : 2025-04-06 DOI:10.1016/j.msard.2025.106435

Einar A. Høgestøl , Daniel A. Rinker , Ivan Maximov , Piotr Sowa , Elisabeth G. Celius , Tuva R. Hope , Atle Bjørnerud , Fuaad M. Sofia , Eloy Martinez de las Heras , Elisabeth Solana , Sara Llufriu , Juan Francisco Corral Gamez , Julio Alonso Farre , Deborah Pareto , Sara Collorone , Elisabetta Pagani , Gabriel Gonzalez-Escamilla , Sergiu Groppa , Jaume Sastre-Garriga , Àlex Rovira , Mona K. Beyer

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Abstract

Background and objectives

White matter (WM) microstructural properties from advanced multishell diffusion MRI (dMRI) have been linked to clinical disability in multiple sclerosis (MS). This multicentre study used multishell dMRI to compute WM metrics and test for differences between people with MS (pwMS) and healthy controls (HCs).

Methods

We included multishell dMRI data from 251 pwMS or clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) (mean age 40.7 years, 72.4 % women, 88.8 % relapsing remitting MS) at six MAGNIMS centres and 543 HCs. Eleven scalar metric maps were estimated from multishell dMRI sequences, based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and restriction spectrum imaging (RSI). The maps were analysed using tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS). The diffusion output was submitted to paired sampled t-tests to test for case-control differences and linear regression models to test for associations with Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) scores, while accounting for confounders. In a sub-sample from Oslo, we tested for correlations between EDSS and dMRI metrics within WM lesions.

Results

Significant group differences were found in nine out of eleven dMRI metrics. Linear regression models revealed significant correlations between EDSS and fractional anisotropy (FA) fast (β=-4.54, p = 0.01) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) fast (β=10.92, p = 8.7 × 10⁻³).

Conclusions

Diffusion MRI based on clinically feasible multishell sequences uncovers WM group differences between pwMS and HCs, but only a selection of the advanced multishell parameters were sensitive to disability, and no statistically significant correlations with disability remained after Bonferroni correction.

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Multiple sclerosis and related disorders CLINICAL NEUROLOGY-

CiteScore

5.80

自引率

20.00%

发文量

814

审稿时长

66 days

期刊介绍： Multiple Sclerosis is an area of ever expanding research and escalating publications. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders is a wide ranging international journal supported by key researchers from all neuroscience domains that focus on MS and associated disease of the central nervous system. The primary aim of this new journal is the rapid publication of high quality original research in the field. Important secondary aims will be timely updates and editorials on important scientific and clinical care advances, controversies in the field, and invited opinion articles from current thought leaders on topical issues. One section of the journal will focus on teaching, written to enhance the practice of community and academic neurologists involved in the care of MS patients. Summaries of key articles written for a lay audience will be provided as an on-line resource. A team of four chief editors is supported by leading section editors who will commission and appraise original and review articles concerning: clinical neurology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, neuroepidemiology, therapeutics, genetics / transcriptomics, experimental models, neuroimmunology, biomarkers, neuropsychology, neurorehabilitation, measurement scales, teaching, neuroethics and lay communication.