Purpose: To determine whether magnetization transfer imaging can improve visibility of contrast enhancement of multiple sclerosis plaques.
Methods: Fifty-nine enhancing and 63 nonenhancing lesions in 10 patients with multiple sclerosis were evaluated to calculate contrast-to-noise ratios on conventional T1-weighted and T1-weighted magnetization transfer images. The signal intensity of the lesion and the background (white matter) were measured on precontrast T1-weighted and T1-weighted magnetization transfer images (800/20/1 [repetition time/echo time/excitations]) and on postcontrast T1-weighted and T1-weighted magnetization transfer images. Mean contrast-to-noise ratios was calculated for all lesions.
Results: The contrast-to-noise ratio was significantly higher for enhancing and nonenhancing lesions on T1-weighted magnetization transfer images than on conventional T1-weighted images. For enhancing lesions, the contrast-to-noise ratio was significantly higher on postcontrast T1-weighted magnetization transfer images, 32 +/- 2 compared with 21 +/- 2 on conventional T1-weighted images. Fifty of the 59 enhancing lesions were seen on both the T1-weighted and the T1-weighted magnetization transfer images. Nine enhancing lesions were seen only on the postcontrast T1-weighted magnetization transfer images. In addition, of 63 nonenhancing lesions seen on proton-density, T2-weighted, and T1-weighted magnetization transfer images, 16 were not seen on the conventional T1-weighted images. Seven of the 63 nonenhancing lesions and 7 of the 59 enhancing lesions had high signal intensity on the precontrast T1-weighted magnetization transfer images suggestive of lipid signal, a finding not seen on the conventional precontrast T1-weighted images.
Conclusion: Magnetization transfer improves the visibility of enhancing multiple sclerosis lesions, because they have a higher contrast-to-noise ratio than conventional postcontrast T1-weighted images. High signal intensity on both nonenhancing and enhancing lesions noted only on precontrast T1-weighted magnetization transfer suggests a lipid signal was unmasked. If magnetization transfer is used in multiple sclerosis patients, a precontrast magnetization transfer image is necessary.
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