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A question about brain MRI - (May/23/2014 )

Are white matter hyperintensities and white matter lesions observed in MRI the same thing?

-jaegbom-

These terms are used more or less synonymously, but note that white matter lesions are hyperintense only in T2 weighting and approx. isointense in T1.

-Tabaluga-