Fourteen patients with disease of the spinal cord were imaged with fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) sequences in which the inversion time was chosen to substantially reduce or null the signal from CSF. Lesions were seen with greater conspicuity than with conventional contrast-enhanced and -unenhanced T1- and T2-weighted sequences in 11 cases.
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