What Are Hyperintense Lesions?
Hyperintense lesions are bright, white spots shown on certain types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. They can be found on the brain, spinal cord, and liver among other areas of the body and can be related to multiple sclerosis, dementia, diabeted and simple aging. Hyperintense lesions can also referred to as hyperintense foci, hyperintensities, or bright signals. The type of MRI process that reveals these lesions is referred to as T2-weighted MRI and is a fairly new technique. Scientists and doctors are still evaluating the exact diagnostic meaning of hyperintense lesions in different cases; in some cases it has been been found that there is no outward symptom related to the lesions. MRIs use interwoven magnetic fields to create images of the all of the tissues inside a body and is most often utilized to make the soft tissues appear in higher contrast than you would see in an x-ray or computed tomography scan. T2-weighted MR imaging uses specific settings for two factors of t
