Main description:

Destined to become the new benchmark among reference books for neuroradiology, this book is unique in its coverage of all imaging modalities and techniques used in modern imaging of the nervous system, head, neck and spine. Also discussed are the principles that underlie CT and MR imaging.

Contents:

I Physical Principles: Computed Tomography.- 1 X-Ray Computed Tomography.- 2 CT: Clinical Applications and Contrast Agents.- II Physical Principles: Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- 3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Principles.- 4A Basic Pulse Sequences.- 4B Data Acquisition and Image Formation.- 5 MRI Hardware, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, and Safety.- 6 Magnetic Resonance Angiography and Flow Imaging.- 7 Faster MRI.- 8 Magnetic Resonance Artifacts.- 9 MRI Contrast Agents.- 10 Hemorrhage.- III Clinical Principles: Normal Anatomy and Variants.- 11 Normal Variations of the Skull and Its Contents.- IV Brain and Skull.- 12 Skull Development and Abnormalities.- 13 Congenital Brain Anomalies.- 14 Perinatal Brain Injury.- 15 The Cerebrospinal Fluid Spaces.- 16 Normal Myelination, Demyelination, and Dysmyelinating Diseases in Pediatrics.- 17 The Phakomatoses.- 18 Head and Brain Trauma.- 19 Adult White Matter Disease.- 20 Stroke.- 21 Aneurysms.- 22 Vascular Malformations.- 23 Interventional Neuroradiology.- 24 Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord.- 25 The Aging Brain and Neurodegenerative Disorders.- 26 Brain Tumors.- V Orbits, Paranasal Sinuses, and Skull Base.- 27 The Sella and Juxtasellar Region.- 28 The Orbit.- 29 The Temporal Bone.- 30 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Temporomandibular Joint.- 31 Sinonasal Imaging.- VI Spine.- 32 Congenital Spine Anomalies.- 33 Myelography.- 34 Degenerative Diseases of the Spine.- 35 Interventional Techniques and Diagnostic Procedures of the Spine.- 36 Inflammatory Disease of the Spine.- 37 Spinal Trauma.- 38 Spinal Tumors.- Appendixes.- A Pediatric Sedation.- B Neuroimaging and Nuclear Medicine.- C Acronyms.