Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 59, Issue 2, Pages 268-277Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.21487
Keywords
postmortem; magnetization transfer; diffusion; fixation; multiple sclerosis
Funding
- Multiple Sclerosis Society [748] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [075941] Funding Source: Medline
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Unfixed and fixed postmortem multiple sclerosis (MS) brain is being used to probe pathology underlying quantitative MR (qMR) changes. Effects of fixation on qMR indices in MS brain are unknown. In 15 postmortem MS brain slices T-1, T-2, MT ratio (MTR), macromolecular proton fraction 013), fractional anisotropy (FA), and mean, axial, and radial diffusivity (MD, D-ax, and D-rad) were assessed in white matter (WM) lesions (WML) and normal appearing WM (NAWM) before and after fixation in for malin. Myelin content, axonal count, and gliosis were quantified histologically. Student's t-test and regression were used for analysis. T-1, T-2, MTR, and f(B) obtained in unfixed MS brain were similar to published values obtained in patients with MS in vivo Following fixation T1, T2 (NAWM, WML) and MTR (NAWM dropped, whereas fB (NAWM, WML) increased. Compared to published in vivo data all diffusivity measures were lower in unfixed MS brain, and dropped further following fixation (except for FA). MTR was the best predictor of T-myelin (inversely related to myelin) in unfixed MS brain (r = -0.83; P < 0.01) whereas postfixation T-2 (r = 0.92; P < 0.01), T-1 (r = 0.89; P < 0.01), and f(B) (r = -0.86; P < 0.01) were superior. All diffusivity measures (except for D-ax in unfixed tissue) were predictors of myelin content.
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