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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819197803321

Titolo

Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and spine / / edited by Scott W. Atlas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-4698-6775-3

1-4698-7591-8

978078176985X

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1923 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AtlasScott W. <1955->

Disciplina

616.8/047548

Soggetti

Central nervous system - Magnetic resonance imaging

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Instrumentation: magnets, coils, and hardware -- Contrast development and manipulation in MR imaging -- Principles of image formation -- Fundamentals of flow and hemodynamics -- Fast imaging principles -- Artifacts in MR -- Disorders of brain development -- Central nervous system manifestations of the phakomatoses -- Epilepsy -- White matter diseases and inherited metabolic disorders -- Adult brain tumors -- Pediatric brain tumors -- Intracranial hemorrhage -- Intracranial vascular malformations and aneurysms -- Cerebral ischemia and infraction -- MR angiography: techniques and clinical applications -- Head trauma -- Inracranial infections -- Normal aging, dementia, and neurodegenerative disease -- The skull base -- The sella turcica and parasellar region -- Anatomy and diseases of the temporal bone -- Eye, orbit, and visual system -- Congenital anomalies of the spine and spinal cord: embryology and malformation -- Degenerative disease of the spine -- Neoplastic disease of the spine and spinal cord -- Spinal trauma -- Vascular disorders of the spine and spinal cord -- Spinal infection and inflammatory disorders -- MR imaging of fetal brain and spine -- Diffusion and diffusion tensor MR imaging: fundamentals -- Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging -- Clinical fMRI -- Psychiatric disease -- Magnetic resonance



spectroscopy and the biochemical basis of neurological disease -- Contrast agents and relaxation effects.