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To facilitate precise HOD diagnosis in future studies, we assessed the reliability of this rater-based approach and explored alternative, quantitative analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Patients who had suffered strokes in the GMT and a matched control group prospectively underwent an MRI examination including T2, FLAIR, and proton density (PD). Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was additionally performed in the patient group. The presence of HOD was assessed on FLAIR, T2, and PD separately by 3 blinded reviewers. Employing an easily reproducible segmentation approach, relative differences in intensity, fractional anisotropy (FA), and mean diffusivity (MD) between both IONs were calculated.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In total, 15 patients were included in this study. The interrater reliability was best for FLAIR, followed by T2 and PD (Fleiss \u03ba = 0.87 \/ 0.77 \/ 0.65). The 3 raters diagnosed HOD in 38\u201346% (FLAIR), 40\u201347% (T2), and 53\u201367% (PD) of patients. False-positive findings in the control group were less frequent in T2 than in PD and FLAIR (2.2% \/ 8.9% \/ 6.7%). In 53% of patients, the intensity difference between both IONs on PD was significantly increased in comparison with the control group. These patients also showed significantly decreased FA and increased MD.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>While the rater-based approach yielded the best performance on T2 imaging, a quantitative, more sensitive HOD diagnosis based on ION intensities in PD and DTI imaging seems possible.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fneur.2022.950191","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,3]],"date-time":"2022-08-03T04:52:00Z","timestamp":1659502320000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Qualitative and quantitative detectability of hypertrophic olivary degeneration in T2, FLAIR, PD, and DTI: A prospective MRI 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