Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. MR Elastography (MRE) can quantitatively assess biomechanical tissue properties in vivo noninvasively. We investigated the potential value of MRE to reveal changes in tissue viscoelasticity in regions and the whole brain in MS patients and to analyze the relevance to clinical manifestations. Our results suggest that the damping ratio and loss modulus are promising quantitative biomarkers for evaluating tissue damage in MS.
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