Muftuler Quantifying Morphology and Physiology of the Human Body Using MRI

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4398-5268-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 525 Seiten

Reihe: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

In the medical imaging field, clinicians and researchers are increasingly moving from the qualitative assessment of printed images to the quantitative evaluation of digital images since the quantitative techniques often improve diagnostic accuracy and complement clinical assessments by providing objective criteria. Despite this growing interest, the field lacks a comprehensive body of knowledge. Filling the need for a complete manual on these novel techniques, Quantifying Morphology and Physiology of the Human Body Using MRI presents a wide range of quantitative MRI techniques to study the morphology and physiology of the whole body, from the brain to musculoskeletal systems.

Illustrating the growing importance of quantitative MRI, the book delivers an indispensable reference for readers who would like to explore in vivo MRI techniques to quantify changes in the morphology and physiology of tissues caused by various disease mechanisms. With internationally renowned experts sharing their insight on the latest developments, the book goes beyond conventional MRI contrast mechanisms to include new techniques that measure electromagnetic and mechanical properties of tissues.

Each chapter offers comprehensive information on data acquisition, processing, and analysis techniques as well as clinical applications. The text organizes the techniques based on their primary use either in the brain or the body. Some of the techniques, such as diffusion-weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging, span several application areas, including brain imaging, cancer imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging. The book also covers up-and-coming quantitative techniques that explore tissue properties other than the presence of protons (or other MRI-observable nuclei) and their interactions with their environment. These novel techniques provide unique information about the electromagnetic and mechanical properties of tissues and introduce new frontiers of study into disease mechanisms.

Zielgruppe

MR physicists and MR clinicians; graduate students in medical physics, biomedical engineering, and physiology; R&D staff at medical device manufacturers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muftuler, L. Tugan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Bildgebende Verfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Strahlentherapie Radiologie, Bildgebende Verfahren
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Anatomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Brain
Quantifying Brain Morphology Using Structural Imaging, Frithjof Kruggel
Quantifying Brain Morphology Using Diffusion Imaging, Murat Aksoy, Samantha Holdsworth, Anh Tu Van, and Roland Bammer
CMRO2 Mapping by Calibrated fMRI, Fahmeed Hyder, Christina Y. Shu, Peter Herman, Basavaraju G. Sanganahalli, Daniel Coman, and Douglas L. Rothman
Quantifying Functional Connectivity in the Brain, Gang Chen and Shi-Jiang Li
Brain MR Spectroscopy In Vivo: Basics and Quantitation of Metabolites, Manoj K. Sarma, Rajakumar Nagarajan, and M. Albert Thomas
Body
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Articular Cartilage and Its Clinical Applications, Xiaojuan Li and Sharmila Majumdar
Quantitative Structural and Functional MRI of Skeletal Muscle, Bruce M. Damon, Theodore Towse, Amanda K.W. Buck, Ke Li, Nathan Bryant, Zhaohua Ding, and Jane H. Park
Quantitative Techniques in Cardiovascular MRI, John Biglands, Ananth Kidambi, Peter Swoboda, Manish Motwani, and Sven Plein
Quantitative MRI of Tumors, James P.B. O’Connor and Richard A.D. Carano
Quantitative Measurements of Tracer Transport Parameters Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI as Vascular Perfusion and Permeability Indices in Cancer Imaging, Min-Ying Su and Jeon-Hor Chen
Evaluation of Body MR Spectroscopy In Vivo, Rajakumar Nagarajan, Manoj K. Sarma, and M. Albert Thomas
Imaging Tissue Elasticity Using Magnetic Resonance Elastography, Yogesh K. Mariappan, Kiaran P. McGee, and Richard L. Ehman
Imaging Conductivity and Permittivity of Tissues Using Electric Properties Tomography, Ulrich Katscher and Tobias Voigt
Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping to Image Tissue Magnetic Properties, Yi Wang and Tian Liu

Index