The association between white matter hyperintensity and acute cerebral infarction using MTP synthetic sequence

Motivation: The application of MTP synthetic sequence can shorten the examination time of patients and obtain routine and quantitative MRI images, widely used in clinical. Goal(s): This study aims to distinguish acute ischemic stroke and white matter hyperintensity (WMH) as well as normal tissue using MTP synthetic sequence. Approach: We compared acute ischemic stroke, WMH and normal gray-white matter ADC and MTP values, investigated the clinical value of MTP in distinguishing these two kinds of diseases. Results: The signal of acute cerebral infarction was obviously different from WMH and normal cerebral tissue. Impact: MTP imaging offers the potential to distinct acute ischemic stroke from WMH and normal brain regions in just a few minutes.