Osborn: EXPERTddx™: Brain and Spine

Part of the EXPERTddx™ series, this unique print-and-electronic reference will guide radiologists toward logical, on-target differential diagnoses based on key imaging findings and clinical information. The book presents the most useful differential diagnoses for each region of the brain and spine, grouped according to specific anatomic location, generic imaging findings, modality-specific findings, or clinically-based indication.

Each differential diagnosis includes:

• at least eight clear, sharp, succinctly annotated images,
• a list of diagnostic possibilities sorted as common, less common, and rare but important,
• and brief, bulleted text offering helpful diagnostic clues.

The companion online Amirsys® e-Book Advantage™ provides additional annotated images.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 1000 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (November 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931884021
• ISBN-13: 978-1931884020
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.9 x 1.7 inches

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Atlas of Fetal and Postnatal Brain MR

It became obvious in the late 1990s that magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the fetal central nervous system was going to be more than an intellectual curiosity wrapped around a technical challenge. There was (and remains in some circles) some resistance to accept that there is any need for supplementing ultrasonography with fetal MR in cases of suspected developmental brain abnormalities. Many recent studies have shown value of in utero MR of the fetus and there is also gathering interest in postmortem MR of the fetus as an adjunct or replacement to autopsy. The problem was how to start. Few radiologists have experience of the normal MR appearances of the brain at 20 to 40 weeks gestational age. Those who do have the experience have usually gained it from imaging premature babies in whom the predominant pathologies are the complications of prematurity, not malformations. It has taken us a long time to build up a base of normal fetal brain examinations; therefore our appreciation of age-related normality was slow to form. This atlas will help others in this complex area of image interpretation.

Brain CT Scans in Clinical Practice

Across emergency rooms all over the world, thousands of patients are referred for brain CT scans daily. A radiologist often has to interpret the scan or a consultation has to be made to a neurosurgeon to review the scan. Most of this happens late at night and is a significant source of discontent. Thus having frontline physicians to be proficient in interpreting the emergency brain CT scan improves the efficiency of the whole pathway of care and is potentially life saving as time is of the essence for many patients with severe brain injury or stroke.
Interpretation of the emergency CT brain scan is a visual art. Comparison is made between the image in front of you and a reference image. For the experienced person, this reference image is imprinted in the mind, therefore comparison is quick. For the beginner, you can either carry several examples of every possible appearance of normal and abnormal scans to compare with or read this book! This book contains a few proven ways of quickly learning to interpret a brain CT scan, irrespective of your previous experience.
The radiologist’s experience is related to the number of hours he or she has spent looking at CT scans. The radiologist conveys his evaluation of the CT scan in words that often come in a particular sequence and combination. This book is about helping you to rapidly understand and confidently use the same language used by the radiologist.

Drevelegas: Imaging of Brain Tumors with Histological Correlations 2nd Edition

The purpose of this book is to bring a new understanding to bear on the diagnosis of brain tumors by linking radiographic image characteristics to the underlying pathology.
Brain tumors are relatively uncommon compared with other neoplasms (e.g., lung, breast, gastrointestinal). They require special study, since they are pathologically complicated, difficult to diagnose, and account for high morbidity.
Athough many excellent neuroradiological books have been written, few of them focus especially on the diagnosis of brain tumors. In this book, brain tumors are discussed in detail. Special emphasis is placed on CT and MRI findings in relation to the pathology of each tumor. As pathology is the “mother” of radiology, this approach may be the best way to understand in depth the imaging manifestations of brain tumors. The illustrative examples herein, were chosen on the basis of their clarity or complexity, their teachability, and their significance for diagnosis and treatment.
In the second edition of this book, all chapters have been revised and updated with new clinical information and new imaging material providing the scientists, interested in the field of Neuro-imaging and Neuro-onocology, with knowledge that will enhance their service to the patients.

Osborn: Diagnostic Imaging: Brain 2nd Edition

In this Second Edition of the bestselling Diagnostic Imaging: Brain, each "original" diagnosis has been revised to include the most recent information, updated references, and new image galleries. Moreover, the book features more than 100 new diagnoses.

You'll find thousands of new images, all crisply annotated to reinforce the most important points. Richly colored graphics pop off the page, and both typical and variant findings are lavishly illustrated in more than 300 diagnoses.

This updated volume will surely become the new standard reference textbook for neuroradiologists, general radiologists, neurologists, and neurosurgeons.
A new companion eBook offers the fully searchable expanded text, hundreds of additional images, and extensive linked references.


The contents is divided into eleven sections, each with 20-25 major diagnoses in each section:

• 1. Trauma
• 2. Infection
• 3. Aneurysms
• 4. Vascular Malformations
• 5. Stroke and Vascular Disease
• 6. Neoplasms
• 7. Cysts
• 8. Meninges
• 9. Ventricles and Cisterns
• 10. Metabolic White Matter, Degenerative Diseases
• 11. Congenital Disorders

Book Details

• Hardcover: 1266 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second edition (December 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931884722
• ISBN-13: 978-1931884723
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9 x 2 inches

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Loevner: Brain Imaging: Case Review Series 2nd edition

• 1 Acute Anterior Cerebral Artery Infarct.
• 2 Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation.
• 3 Hemorrhagic Metastases - Melanoma.
• 4 Penetrating Brain Injury – Bow and Arrow Injury.
• 5 Orbital Pseudotumor.
• 6 Acute Epidural Hematoma and Associated Linear Fracture of the Frontal Bone.
• 7 Pyogenic Brain Abscess.
• 8 Chiari II Malformation – with Associated Anomalies.
• 9 Acute Hydrocephalus Secondary to Meningitis.
• 10 Pineal Cyst.
• 11 Hemorrhagic Contusions - Closed Head Injury.
• 12 Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma of the Cerebellum.
• 13 Fibrous Dysplasia.
• 14 Acute Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke: “Hyperdense” MCA and Insular Ribbon Sign.
• 15 Multiple Sclerosis.
• 16 Meningioma.
• 17 Acute Actively bleeding Subdural hematoma – Subfalcine Herniation and Stroke.
• 18 Acute Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Rupture of an Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm.
• 19 Embolic Infarcts (Acute and Subacute) – Atrial Fibrillation.
• 20 Vestibular Schwannoma of the Internal Auditory Canal.
• 21 Orbital Cellulitis and Abscess.
• 22 Acute Hypertensive Thalamic Hemorrhage.
• 23 Infiltrating Astrocytoma – Low Grade.
• 24 Arachnoid Cyst .
• 25 Retinoblastoma.
• 26 Subdural Empyema – Complicated by Cerebritis.
• 27 Glioblastoma Multiforme of the Corpus Callosum--"Butterfly Glioma"
• 28 Virchow-Robin Perivascular Space
• 29 Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
• 30 Nonaccidental Trauma--Child Abuse
• 31 Cerebellar Hemangioblastoma
• 32 Calvarial Metastases--Breast Carcinoma
• 33 Chronic Anemia - Diffuse Replacement of the Fat in the Calvarial Marrow
• 34 Giant Aneurysm – Middle Cerebral Artery
• 35 Bilateral Subacute Subdural Hematomas
• 36 Parafalcine Meningioma Invading the Superior Sagittal Sinus
• 37 Hemorrhagic Venous Infarction
• 38 Vertebral Artery Dissection - Spontaneous
• 39 Spontaneous Cerebral Hematoma - Ruptured Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation
• 40 Vascular Infundibulum – Posterior Communicating Artery
• 41 Closed Head Injury - Diffuse Axonal Injury
• 42 Glioblastoma Multiforme – Subependymal Spread
• 43 Amyloid Angiopathy
• 44 Mesial Temporal Sclerosis
• 45 Intraventricular Meningioma
• 46 Suprasellar Germinoma
• 47 Mineral Deposition in the Basal Ganglia on T1W Imaging – Abnormal Calcium/Phosphate Metabolism
• 48 Herpes Simplex Encephalitis – Type 1
• 49 Primary Orbital Lymphoma
• 50 Basilar Meningitis and Encephalitis – Tuberculosis FAIR GAME
• 51 Dural Metastases - Breast Carcinoma
• 52 Aqueductal Stenosis
• 53 Rathke's Cleft Cyst
• 54 Optic Neuritis (Demyelinating Disease)
• 55 Ocular trauma – Lens dislocation; Globe Rupture
• 56 Developmental Venous Anomaly
• 57 Fibrous Dysplasia of the Calvaria
• 58 Cavernous Sinus Mass—Meningioma
• 59 Pyogenic Ventriculitis With Acute Hydrocephalus
• 60 Lesions of the Pituitary Stalk and Hypothalmus: Case A Sarcoidosis, Case B Langerhans Histiocytosis (EG)
• 61 Nodular Subependymal Heterotopia
• 62 Basilar Meningitis – Sarcoidosis
• 63 Pituitary Microadenoma
• 64 Multiple Sclerosis – Marburg Type
• 65 Transtentorial Herniation
• 66 Epidermoid Cyst - Cerebellopontine Cistern
• 67 Cavernous Malformation (Cavernous Hemangioma, Occult Cerebrovascular Malformation)
• 68 Persistent Trigeminal Artery
• 69 Colloid Cyst
• 70 Cavum Septum Pellucidum and Cavum Vergae
• 71 Toxoplasmosis Infection in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• 72 Encephalocele - Developmental
• 73 Cysticercosis of the Central Nervous System
• 74 Facial nerve – Inflammation (Viral)
• 75 MR Tractography – Preoperative Mapping of the Corticospinal Tracts for GBM Resection
• 76 Right Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm Rupture
• 77 Ganglioglioma
• 78 Paget's Disease – Osteitis Deformans
• 79 Fibromuscular Dysplasia – Complicated by Acute Stroke
• 80 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
• 81 Lateral Medullary Syndrome – Wallenberg’s
• 82 Wallerian Degeneration
• 83 Dandy-Walker Malformation
• 84 Thyroid Ophthalmopathy – with Optic Nerve Compression in Orbital Apex
• 85 Bilateral Frontal Sinus Mucoceles
• 86 Suprasellar Cistern Arachnoid Cyst
• 87 Fourth Ventricular Neoplasms – Choroid Plexus Papilloma, and Ependymoma
• 88 Multiple Cavernous Malformations - Familial Pattern
• 89 Vein of Galen Aneurysm
• 90 Tuberous Sclerosis (Bourneville's Disease)
• 91 Craniosynostosis—Metopic Suture
• 92 Glioma of the Tectum (Quadrigeminal Plate)
• 93 Craniopharyngioma – Recurrent Adamantinomatous Type
• 94 Intradiploic Epidermoid Cyst
• 95 Porencephalic Cyst
• 96 Subependymal Heterotopia
• 97 Acute Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke - MR
• 98 Hemangioblastoma
• 99 Posterior Circulation Ischemia due to Subclavian Steal
• 100 CNS Vasculitis – Cerebral Hemorrhage and Infarcts
• 101 Optic Nerve Meningioma
• 102 Peri-pineal Meningioma
• 103 Air Embolism with Acute Right Cerebral Infarct
• 104 Venous Sinus Thrombosis Complicating Otomastoiditis
• 105 Intraventricular Hemorrage
• 106 Pituitary Macroadenoma – in Left Cavernous Sinus
• 107 Lymphoma of Occipital Condyle and C1
• 108 Central Nervous System Sarcoidosis
• 109 Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus
• 110 Lipomas Associated with the Corpus Callosum
• 111 Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma with Intracranial Extension
• 112 Intracerebral Rupture of a Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm
• 113 Gadolinium-Associated Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (Part I)
• 114 Gadolinium-Associated Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (Part II)
• 115 Fenestration of the Basilar Artery
• 116 Moyamoya Disease
• 117 Focal Cortical Dysplasia
• 118 Acute Sinusitis
• 119 Anterior Clinoiditis and Mucocele Formation Complicating Sinusitis
• 120 Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension
• 121 Multiple Meningiomas Following Remote Whole Brain Irradiation
• 122 Fahr Disease (Familial Cerebrovascular Ferrocalcinosis)
• 123 Central Nervous System Lymphoma--Immunocompetent Patient
• 124 Alzheimer's Disease
• 125 Sturge-Weber Syndrome (Encephalotrigeminal Angiomatosis)
• 126 Ectopic Posterior Pituitary and Nonvisualization of the Infundibulum - Hypopituitarism
• 127 Acute Toxic Demyelination – Carbon Monoxide Intoxication
• 128 Neurofibromatosis Type 1 – Pilocytic Astrocytoma of Optic Pathway
• 129 Lymphoma Involving the Circumventricular Organs
• 130 Nonaneurysmal Perimesencephalic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
• 131 Radiation Necrosis Following Treatment of High-Grade Glioma
• 132 Radiation Necrosis After XRT for Nasopharyngeal Cancer
• 133 Internal Carotid Artery Dissection
• 134 Tension Pneumocephalus
• 135 Cryptococcosis
• 136 Subarachnoid Seeding--Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
• 137 Brainstem Astrocytoma
• 138 Thrombosis of a Developmental Venous Malformation – Postpartum
• 139 Textiloma or Gossypiboma - Retained Surgical Sponge
• 140 Petrous Apex Cholesterol Granuloma
• 141 Hamartoma of the Hypothalamus
• 142 Hodgkin Disease – Dural Based
• 143 Clival Chordoma
• 144 Perineural Spread of Skin Cancer - Basal Cell Carcinoma
• 145 Central Nervous System Lyme Disease
• 146 Reversible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy (RPL) – PRES
• 147 Fibrous Dysplasia of the Temporal Bone
• 148 Neuroblastoma – Metastases to the Cranium
• 149 Cystic Meningioma – with Cellular Atypia
• 150 Global Anoxic Brain Injury
• CHALLENGER
• 151 Lobar Holoprosencephaly
• 152 Olivopontocerebellar Degeneration
• 153 Band Heterotopia—Pachygyria
• 154 Huntington's Disease
• 155 Meningocele/Pseudomeningocele of the Skull Base (Petrous Apex)
• 156 Right Thalamic Glioblastoma Multiforme
• 157 Multiple Sclerosis and Glioblastoma Multiforme
• 158 Adrenoleukodystrophy
• 159 Medulloblastoma
• 160 Subacute Middle Cerebral Artery Territory Stroke Mimicking a Bone Metastasis
• 161 Cytomegalovirus Meningitis and Ependymitis in a Patient with AIDs
• 162 Upper Brainstem and Thalamic Cavernous Malformation
• 163 Capillary Telangiectasia and Developmental Venous Anomaly of the Brain Stem
• 164 Central Neurocytoma
• 165 Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome
• 166 Metastatic Carcinoid to the Orbital Extraocular Muscles
• 167 Joubert's Syndrome
• 168 Systemic Non-hodgkin Lymphoma
• 169 Abnormal Iron Deposition in Deep Gray Matter Nuclei
• 170 Herpes Encephalopathy - HHV-6 Following Organ Transplantation
• 171 Jacob-Creutzfeldt Disease
• 172 Orbital Lymphangioma
• 173 Carotid-Cavernous Fistula – Part I
• 174 Carotid-Cavernous Fistula – Part II
• 175 Gliomatosis Cerebri
• 176 Canavan's Disease
• 177 Neurofibromatosis Type 2
• 178 Metastasis to the Cerebellopontine Angle - Ocular Melanoma
• 179 Retained Gadolinium - Renal Failure
• 180 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – Lou Gehrig’s Disease
• 181 High Grade Anaplastic Astrocytoma
• 182 Wilson's Disease
• 183 Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma
• 184 Primary Leptomeningeal Melanosis
• 185 Dural Arteriovenous Fistula (Part I)
• 186 Dural Arteriovenous Fistula (Part II)
• 187 Fetal Schizencephaly
• 188 Wernicke Encephalopathy
• 189 Ruptured Mycotic Aneurysm
• 190 Osmotic Demyelination
• 191 Rosai-Dorfman Disease – Benign Sinus Histiocytosis
• 192 Cystic Necrotic Brain Mass – Part I
• 193 Cystic Necrotic Brain Mass Part II– Metastatic Adenocarcinoma of the Lung
• 194 Rhombencephalosynapsis
• 195 Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
• 196 Sphenoid Dysplasia and Brain Dysplasia- Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (von Recklinghausen's Disease)
• 197 Panhypopituitarism with Absence of the Infundibulum
• 198 Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia Syndrome – Due to Mitochondrial Defect
• 199 Limbic Encephalitis - Paraneoplastic Syndrome (Small Cell Lung Carcinoma)
• 200 von Hippel-Lindau Disease

This volume in the best-selling "Case Review" series uses hundreds of case studies to challenge your knowledge of a full range of topics in brain imaging. With 170 brand new cases, new coverage of MRA, CTA, MR spectroscopy and multi-detectors and over 600 brilliant images, this is your ideal concise, economical, and user-friendly tool for self assessment in this specialty!

Book Features

• Utilizes case studies organized into "Opening Round," "Fair Game," and "Challenge" sections, so you can test yourself at varying difficulty levels.
• Provides at-a-glance review/self-testing of brain imaging cases ideal for preparing for the boards in brain imaging, the CAQ exam for neuroradiology or for the general radiologist ready for re-certification.
• Mimics the official exam formats and daily practice environment by giving you cases/images as unknowns with three to four questions; then, on the flip side of the page, diagnosis, answers to the questions, additional commentary, and references to the corresponding volume in Elsevier's popular Requisites Series.
• Includes 600 state of the art images to effectively compliment and support the text and provide a clear picture of what you can expect, both in test-taking and in practice.
• Uses randomly organized cases so you can test yourself without the aid of logical organization by anatomy or disease type.

New in this edition

• Includes 170 new cases and over 50 new diagnoses so you can keep pace with the latest developments.
• Includes a greater emphasis on differential diagnosis.
• Adds coverage of MRA, CTA, MR spectroscopy and multi-detectors to keep you completely current.
• Provides all new images for existing entities.
• Adds cutting-edge coverage of neuro-imaging including spectroscopy, CTA, MRA, Functional imaging, tractography, perfusion and diffusion.

Book Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 2 edition (November 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032303179X
• ISBN-13: 978-0323031790
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches

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Roe: Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods

• 1 Casting Light on Neural Function: A Subjective History.
• 2 Fluorescent Sensors of Membrane Potential that Are Genetically Encoded.
• 3 The Influence of Astrocyte Activation on Hemodynamic Signals for Functional Brain Imaging.
• 4 Somatosensory: Imaging Tactile Perception.
• 5 How Images of Objects Are Represented in Macaque Inferotemporal Cortex.
• 6 Optical Imaging of Short-Term Working Memory in Prefrontal Cortex of the Macaque Monkey.
• 7 Intraoperative Optical Imaging of Human Cortex.
• 8 Using Optical Imaging to Investigate Functional Cortical Activity in Human Infants.
• 9 In Vivo Dynamics of the Visual Cortex Measured with Voltage Sensitive Dyes.
• 10 Fast Optical Neurophysiology.
• 11 Two-Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy as a Tool to Study Cortical Vasodynamics Under Normal and Ischemic Conditions.
• Index.

Monitoring brain function with light in vivo has become a reality. The technology of detecting and interpreting patterns of reflected light has reached a degree of maturity that now permits high spatial and temporal resolution visualization at both the systems and cellular levels. There now exist several optical imaging methodologies, based on either hemodynamic changes in nervous tissue or neurally induced light scattering changes, that can be used to measure ongoing activity in the brain.

These include the techniques of intrinsic signal optical imaging, near-infrared optical imaging, fast optical imaging based on scattered light, optical imaging with voltage sensitive dyes, and two-photon imaging of hemodynamic signals. The purpose of this volume is to capture some of the latest applications of these methodologies to the study of cerebral cortical function.

This volume begins with an overview and history of optical imaging and its use in the study of brain function. Several chapters are devoted to the method of intrinsic signal optical imaging, a method used to record the minute changes in optical absorption due to hemodynamic changes that accompanies cortical activity. Since the detected hemodynamic changes are highly localized, this method has excellent spatial resolution (50–100 µm ), a resolution sufficient for visualization of fundamental modules of cerebral cortical function. This methodology has led to huge advances in our understanding of cortical function and is now being used intraoperatively to study function and dysfunction (such as epilepsy and stroke) in human neocortex.

At even higher spatial resolution, in vivo two-photon imaging permits incredible visualization of responses within cortical columns and within microvascular compartments. Other rapidly developing optical technologies and their applications are also introduced. Near-infrared imaging, also hemodynamically based, is particularly well suited for studying brain function in infants and children due to its noninvasiveness and ease of use. High temporal resolution optical imaging, capable of following neuronal activity on the millisecond timescale, is achieved with methods such as voltagesensitive dye imaging and imaging based on scattered light signals.

Together, this volume provides a cross section of the current state of optical imaging methodologies and their contribution towards our understanding of the spatial and temporal organization of cerebral cortical function.


Key Features

• Encapsulates the current state of optical imaging methodologies.
• Contributes to our understanding of the spatial and temporal organization of cerebral cortical function.

About the author

• Dr. Anna W. Roe is a professor of psychology and radiology at Vanderbilt University. She has developed optical methods for studying brain function and specializes in how our brain builds real vs. illusory percepts of the world.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 259 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 29, 2009) 
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1441904514
• ISBN-13: 978-1441904515
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches

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Dynamic Brain Imaging: Multi-Modal Methods & In Vivo Applications

PART I. INTRODUCTION.

• 1. Dynamic Imaging of Brain Function.
• 2. Fractal Characterization of Complexity in Dynamic Signals: Application to Cerebral Hemodynamics.

PART II. OPTICAL IMAGING.

• 3. Wide-Field and Two-Photon Imaging of Brain Activity with Voltageand Calcium-Sensitive Dyes.
• 4. Two-Photon Imaging of Capillary Blood Flow in Olfactory Bulb Glomeruli.
• 5. Astrocytic Calcium Signaling: Mechanism and Implications for Functional Brain Imaging.
• 6. Using the Light Scattering Component of Optical Intrinsic Signals to Visualize In Vivo Functional Structures of Neural Tissues.

PART III. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

• 7. Methods for Studying Functional Interactions Among Neuronal Populations.
• 8. Magnetoencephalography (MEG).
• 9. Functional Neuroimaging of Spike-Wave Seizures.

PART IV. FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (fMRI)

• 10. Tactile and Non-tactile Sensory Paradigms for fMRI and Neurophysiologic Studies in Rodents.
• 11. Using fMRI for Elucidating Dynamic Interactions.
• 12. Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Animal Models: Modulations by Exsanguination.

PART V. ALTERNATE MAGNETIC RESONANCE METHODS

• 13. Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cerebral Blood Flow Using Arterial Spin Labeling.
• 14. Dynamic MRI of Small Electrical Activity.
• 15. Advanced In Vivo Heteronuclear MRS Approaches for Studying Brain Bioenergetics Driven by Mitochondria.

Index.

Dynamic Brain Imaging: Multi-Modal Methods and In Vivo Applications will help users learn to decipher the dynamic imaging data that will be critical to our future understanding of complex brain functions.

In recent years, there have been unprecedented methodological advancements in the imaging of brain activity. These techniques allow the measurement of everything from neural activity (e.g., membrane potential, ion flux, neurotransmitter flux) to energy metabolism (e.g., glucose consumption, oxygen consumption, creatine kinase flux) and functional hyperemia (e.g., blood flow, volume, oxygenation). This book deals with a variety of magnetic resonance, electrophysiology, and optical methods that are often used to measure some of these dynamic processes.

All chapters were written by leading experts, spanning three continents, specializing in state-of-the-art methods. Briefly, the book has five sections. In the introductory section, there are two chapters; the first one contains a brief preamble to dynamic brain imaging and the other presents a novel, analytical approach to processing of dynamically acquired data. The second section has four chapters and delves into a wide range of optical imaging methods. The next two sections have three chapters each, whereas the last section has four chapters. The third section discusses many of the most frequently used electrophysiological methods. The fourth section presents diverse uses and applications of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The final section brings together some up-and-coming alternate magnetic resonance methods with the potential to strengthen non-invasive neuroimaging.

Key Features

• Provides a balanced emphasis on methods and applications that even specialists within various functional imaging fields will find useful.
• Contains a review of developments in technical features of dynamic multi-modal imaging and analytical tools for characterization of dynamic signals.
• Includes novel multi-modal applications in neuroimaging to epilepsy, with state-of-the-art demonstrations of increased sensitivity and specificity of detection.
• Examines examples of dynamic functional imaging of multiple brain areas (e.g., cerebral cortex, olfactory bulb, retina) using cutting-edge multi-modal techniques.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 366 pages
• Publisher: Humana Press; 1 edition (October 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934115746
• ISBN-13: 978-1934115749
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches

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