Download or read book MR Spectroscopy of Pediatric Brain Disorders written by Stefan Blüml and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a modality available on most clinical MR scanners and readily integrated with standard MR imaging (MRI). For the brain in particular, MRS has been a powerful research tool providing additional clinically relevant information for several disease families such as brain tumors, metabolic disorders, and systemic diseases. The most widely-available MRS method, proton (1H; hydrogen) spectroscopy, is FDA approved for general use in the US and can be ordered by clinicians for patient studies if indicated. There are several books available that describe applications of MRS in adults. However, to the best of our knowledge there is currently no book available that focuses exclusively on applications in pediatrics. MR spectroscopy in the pediatric population is different from adults for two main reasons. Particularly in the newborn phase the brain undergoes biochemical maturation with dramatic changes of the "normal" biochemical fingerprint. Secondly, brain diseases in the pediatric population are different from adult disorders. For example, brain tumors, which are mostly gliomas in the adults, often originate from different cell types and are also more diverse even within the same type and grade of tumor. This diversity of diseases and its implications for MR spectroscopy has not been addressed sufficiently in the literature, we believe. The target audience for "MR Spectroscopy of Pediatric Brain Disorders" are thus both clinicians and researchers involved with pediatric brain disorders. This includes radiologists, neurologists, neurooncologists, neurosurgeons, and more broadly the neuroscience and neurobiology community. This book will provide the necessary background information to understand the basics of MR spectroscopy. This will be followed by a detailed discussion of the normal biochemical maturation which will highlight the metabolic differences between the pediatric and adult brain. Thereafter, in SECTION I individual chapters will address various pediatric brain disease families. Of particular importance for pediatrics are case studies. For that reason, SECTION II will contain a large number of case studies. This will be particularly important for clinicians who may want to see examples of MRS for various conditions. A standardized format will be used for case reports that allow the reader to quickly understand the history of each case presented and the significance of the findings. The case reports will also include information from other imaging modalities to point out any added value of MRS in addition to conventional studies and clinical information. This section is necessary because the format of providing more complete information about individual patients is not practical for the chapters in SECTION I.
Download or read book MR Spectroscopy of Pediatric Brain Disorders written by Springer and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pediatric Brain and Spine written by L.M. Ketonen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MR Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Developing Brain.- Congenital Malformation of the Brain.- Inherited Neurological Diseases and Disorders of Myelin.- Acquired Toxic and Metabolic Brain Disorders.- Tumors: Paratentorial Neoplasms.- Tumors: Supratentorial Neoplasms.- Brain Damage.- Miscellaneous.- Vascular Abnormalities.- Temporal Bone.- Spine.- Fetal Imaging.
Download or read book MR Spectroscopy of the Brain An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics written by Lara A. Brandao and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue focuses on MR Spectroscopy (MRS) for neuroimaging. Topics include MRS for Common Dementias, Epilepsy, Metabolic Disorders, Hypoxic-isquemic Injuries, Multiple Sclerosis, Brain Infections, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Adult Brain Neoplasms.
Download or read book Foundations of Sport Related Brain Injuries written by Semyon M. Slobounov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In summarizing current insights and controversies over concussions in athletics, this book makes the vital point that symptom resolution does not necessarily mean injury resolution. Research shows that dysfunctional pathways continue for extended periods even after a minor concussion. Until the consequences of short-term perturbations and long-term residual brain dysfunctions are better understood, concussions must be treated with respect and given a higher priority for continued research activity.
Download or read book Clinical MR Spectroscopy written by Peter B. Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all MR spectroscopy techniques and their clinical applications in neurological disorders, malignancies and musculoskeletal diseases.
Download or read book MRI of the Pediatric Brain written by R. Nuri Sener and published by Warren H Green. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As medical imaging techniques have improved, both in variety and precision, medical imaging has assumed an increasingly significant part in the clinical care of patients. It plays a major role in narrowing differential diagnoses, directing specific therapies and in non-invasively reanalysing the patient both while undergoing therapy and after the treatment is completed. This is particularly important in the diagnosis and treatment of brain dysfunction or injury in children. In terms of brain function, as with almost everything else, children are not merely small adults. They can have unique medical problems that differ in ways that are sometimes profound, sometimes subtle, from the problems of adults. While symptoms and clinical, historical information are vital diagnostic tools, they are not always sufficient to allow a specific diagnosis to be made with confidence. Therefore, medical imaging has assumed a greater role in early diagnosis and treatment. In treating any group of patients, it is important to have a comprehensive understanding of both normal and pathological anatomy. This book adds to our understanding of both these aspects of the paediatric brain and will be an extremely useful reference for the clinician to diagnose, prognoses and prescribe optimal treatment for this specialised group of patients.
Download or read book Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Multiple Sclerosis written by M. Filippi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed dramatic advances in the development and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can provide quantitative measures with some degree of pathological specificity for the heterogeneous substrates of multiple sclerosis (MS). Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is one of the most promising of these techniques. Thanks to MRS, axonal damage is no longer considered an end-stage phenomenon typical of only the most destructive lesions and the most unfortunate cases, but rather as a major component of the MS pathology of lesions and normal-appearing white matter at all the phases of the disease. This new concept is rapidly changing our understanding of MS pathophysiology and, as a consequence, the therapeutic strategies to modify the disease course favorably. Many of the authors have pionereed the use of MRS in MS, thus contributing to the foundation of the "axonal hypothesis".
Download or read book Clinical MR Neuroimaging written by Jonathan H. Gillard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers each physiological MR methodology and their applications to all major neurological diseases.
Download or read book Magnetic Resonance of Myelin Myelination and Myelin Disorders written by Jacob Valk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now considered the imaging modality of choice for the majority of disorders affecting the central nervous system. This is particularly true for gray and white matter disorders, thanks to the superb soft tis sue contrast in MRI which allows gray matter, unmyelinated, and myelinated white matter to be distinguished and their respective disorders identified. The pre sent book is devoted to the disorders of myelin and myelination. A growing amount of detailed in vivo information about myelin, myelination, and myelin dis orders has been derived both from MRI and from MR spectroscopy (MRS). This prompted us to review the clinical, laboratory, biochemical, and pathological data on this subject in order to integrate all available information and to provide im proved insights into normal and disordered myelin and myelination. We will show how the synthesis of all available information contributes to the interpretation of MR images. After a brief historical review about the increasing knowledge on myelin and my elin disorders, we propose a new classification of myelin disorders based on the subcellular localization of the enzymatic defects as far as the inborn errors of me tabolism are concerned. This classification serves as a guide throughout the book. All items of the classification will be discussed and, whenever relevant and possi ble, be illustrated by MR images.
Download or read book Pediatric Neuroimaging written by A. James Barkovich and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2005 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition of this acclaimed reference describes and illustrates the full range of pediatric disorders diagnosable by modern neuroimaging. This edition includes state-of-the-art information on the use of proton spectroscopy, diffusion imaging, and perfusion imaging in diagnosing metabolic disorders, brain tumors, abnormalities of cerebral microstructure, and abnormalities of blood flow. New entities have been added to the chapters on metabolic disorders, brain injuries, congenital malformations of the brain and skull, cerebellar disorders, brain tumors, phakomatoses, hydrocephalus, and infections. More than 2,400 images complement the text. A List of Disorders with corresponding page numbers enables readers to quickly look up a disease.
Download or read book Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine written by Scott W. Atlas and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established as the leading textbook on imaging diagnosis of brain and spine disorders, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine is now in its Fourth Edition. This thoroughly updated two-volume reference delivers cutting-edge information on nearly every aspect of clinical neuroradiology. Expert neuroradiologists, innovative renowned MRI physicists, and experienced leading clinical neurospecialists from all over the world show how to generate state-of-the-art images and define diagnoses from crucial clinical/pathologic MR imaging correlations for neurologic, neurosurgical, and psychiatric diseases spanning fetal CNS anomalies to disorders of the aging brain. Highlights of this edition include over 6,800 images of remarkable quality, more color images, and new information using advanced techniques, including perfusion and diffusion MRI and functional MRI. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.
Download or read book Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience written by Judith M. Rumsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern neuroimaging offers tremendous opportunities for gaining insights into normative development and a wide array of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Focusing on ontogeny, this text covers basic processes involved in both healthy and atypical maturation, and also addresses the range of neuroimaging techniques most widely used for studying children. This book will enable you to understand normative structural and functional brain maturation and the mechanisms underlying basic developmental processes; become familiar with current knowledge and hypotheses concerning the neural bases of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders; and learn about neuroimaging techniques, including their unique strengths and limitations. Coverage includes normal developmental processes, atypical processing in developmental neuropsychiatric disorders, ethical issues, neuroimaging techniques and their integration with psychopharmacologic and molecular genetic research approaches, and future directions. This comprehensive volume is an essential resource for neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and radiologists concerned with normal development and developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.
Download or read book Progressive Brain Disorders in Childhood written by Juan M. Pascual and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of childhood neurodegenerative and other progressive but non-degenerative disorders to guide their diagnosis and management.
Download or read book MR Spectroscopy of the Brain written by Lara Alexandre Brandão and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a practical guide to the technique and most frequent clinical applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of the brain. Using more than 500 images, the authors present the fundamentals of MRS in a straightforward fashion and show radiologists and neurologists how to recognize normal and disease processes on scans. The book presents the spectra of the most common neurological disease entities, along with the conventional images and perfusion and diffusion where appropriate. The authors thoroughly describe the pathology and key MRS features of each disease process. Each chapter ends with a quick-reference summary of the main findings.
Download or read book Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy written by Fred A. Mettler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Pediatric Brain Imaging written by Hao Huang and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Pediatric Brain Imaging: Methods and Applications presents state-of-the-art research on pediatric brain image acquisition and analysis from a broad range of imaging modalities, including MRI, EEG and MEG. With rapidly developing methods and applications of MRI, this book strongly emphasizes pediatric brain MRI, elaborating on the sub-categories of structure MRI, diffusion MRI, functional MRI, perfusion MRI and other MRI methods. It integrates a pediatric brain imaging perspective into imaging acquisition and analysis methods, covering head motion, small brain sizes, small cerebral blood flow of neonates, dynamic cortical gyrification, white matter tract growth, and much more. Presents state-of-the-art pediatric brain imaging methods and applications Shows how to optimize the pediatric neuroimaging acquisition and analysis protocols Illustrates how to obtain quantitative structural, functional and physiological measurements
