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UBO: unidentified bright objects, bright spots in the brain on T2-weighted images; mostly small regions of état criblé and état lacunaire; small infarctions, scars, or high- intensity regions in demyelinizating diseases.

ultra-high field: fields strength beyond 2.5 Tesla, e.g. 3-Tesla or 7-Tesla systems.

USPIO: ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide particles.


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