New paper from Haacke--in SWI test subjects under age 40- 1% of healthy subjects and 67% of patients with RRMS showed abnormally high iron content.



Assessing Abnormal Iron Content in the Deep Gray Matter of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis versus H
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It is well known that patients with MS tend to have abnormal iron deposition in and around the MS plaques, in the basal ganglia and the THA. In this study, we used SWI to quantify iron content in patients with MS and healthy volunteers.