Five-Year Longitudinal Study of Neck Vessel Cross-Sectional Area in Multiple Sclerosis

^aFrom the Department of Electronics Information and Bioengineering (L.P., G.B.), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
^bIstituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (L.P., M.M.L.), Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
^cBuffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (D.J., N.B., J.H., R.Z.), Department of Neurology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
^dJacobs Multiple Sclerosis Center (B.W.-G.), Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
^eCenter for Biomedical Imaging at Clinical Translational Science Institute (R.Z.), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York.

Please address correspondence to Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD, University of Buffalo, Department of Neurology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, 100 High St, Buffalo, NY 14203; e-mail: rzivadinov{at}bnac.net

Funding

Research reported in this publication was also funded in part by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award Number UL1TR001412. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
This study was funded in part by the Annette Funicello Research Fund for Neurological Diseases and internal resources of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center. In addition, we received support from the Jacquemin Family Foundation.