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MRI scans are part of clinical routine for MS patients. How does MRI work, what does it show and do those scans really lead to better treatment?
Since the beginning of the 1980s, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been part of clinical routine for MS patients. Neurologists looking at those MRI scans will usually find lesions in the brain of MS patients and often confuse these with permanent brain damage. MS can be very well visualized by using MRI. But with increasing use of MRI, it has become obvious that these scans do not correlate well with the neurological conditions of the patients. A high number of lesions does not automatically lead to neurological disability, nor can every disability be traced back to findings in MRI scans. This is called the “MRI-paradox�. (1) 12
