I took this title line from an MSer, I met Yesterday
What do MRI Images mean?
T1 on left and T2 on the right.
The brain fluid is black in T1 and are white in a T2 image
Someone from TeamG will be explaining this at the Research Day
Can you spot MS in these scans (below)
The are a number of non-standard imaging techniques that can give extra information, one is called diffusion (tensor) imaging. It can detected water molecules that are restricted in their movement into certain planes suggesting they are trapped with axons and so this technique measures axonal tracts seen in there healthy brains below.
Through performing numerous scans at different levels of the brain,you can build up a picture of nerve tracts.