Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine delivers cutting-edge information on nearly every aspect of clinical neuroradiology. Leading neuroimagers, innovative MRI physicists, and veteran clinical neurospecialists show how to generate state-of-the-art images and delineate crucial clinical/pathologic MR imaging correlations.

Features:

• Brand-new chapters on diffusion, MRI, perfusion MRI, task activation functional MRI, epilepsy, and psychiatricl disorders and major revisions to existing chapters
• Updated images ensure the cleares state-of-the-art views
• Differential diagnosis tables have been reformatted for greater clarity
• The book has been divided into two manageable volumes for easier use

Contents

Principles

• Instrumentation: Magnets, Coils, and Hardware
• Basis of MR Contrast
• Principles of Image Formation: K-space
• Contrast Agents and Relaxation
• Flow: Theory and MR Techniques
• Fast Imaging: Principles
• Diffusion
• Perfusion
• Artifacts
• Bioeffects and Safety

Brain

• Disorders of Brain Development
• CNS Manifestations of Inherited Syndromes
• Epilepsy
• White Matter Diseases
• Intraaxial Brain Tumors
• Extraaxial Brain Tumors
• Intracranial Hemorrhage
• Intracranial Vascular Malformations and Aneurysms
• Cerebral Infarction and Ischmeic Disease
• MR Angiography
• Head Trauma
• Intracranial Infection
• The Aging Brain and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Skull Base

• Base of the Skull
• Sella and Parasellar Region
• Diseases of the Temporal Bone
• The Orbit and Visual System

Spine

• Congenital Anomalies of the Spine and Spinal Cord
• Degenerative Disease of the Spine and Spinal Cord
• Neoplastic Disease of the Spine and Spinal Cord
• Spinal Trauma
• Vascular Disease of the Spine
• Spinal Infection and Inflammatory Disorders

Advances

• Functional MRI of the Brain
• Psychiatric Disease
• MR Spectroscopy and the Biochemical Basis of Neurological Disease

Index

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