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

• TeilnehmendeR: Atlas, Scott W., 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,, [2009]; 2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Fourth edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1923 pages) :; illustrations (some color)

Table of Contents

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.