Quantitative MRI of the Spinal Cord
Author: Julien Cohen-Adad, Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott
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Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN 10: 0123969735
ISBN 13: 9780123969736
eISBN: 9780123972828
Edition: 1st
Affiliation:
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN 10: 0123969735
ISBN 13: 9780123969736
eISBN: 9780123972828
Edition: 1st
Description:
Quantitative MRI of the Spinal Cord is the first book focused on quantitative MRI techniques with specific application to the human spinal cord. Most existing books on spinal cord MRI are intended for radiologists and focus on qualitative rather than quantitative techniques used in clinical routine, such as T1/T2/PD-weighted MRI. This work instead includes coverage of diffusion-weighted imaging, magnetization transfer imaging, relaxometry, functional MRI, and spectroscopy. Although these methods have been successfully used in the brain for the past 20 years, their application in the spinal cord remains problematic due to important acquisition challenges (such as small cross-sectional size, motion, and susceptibility artifacts). To date, there is no consensus on how to apply these techniques; this book reviews and synthesizes state-of-the-art methods so users can successfully apply them to the spinal cord. Quantitative MRI of the Spinal Cord introduces the theory behind each quantitative technique, reviews each theory's applications in the human spinal cord and describes its pros and cons, and suggests a simple protocol for applying each quantitative technique to the spinal cord.
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