Neuromuscular Imaging

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wattjes, Mike P. (Editor), Fischer, Dirk. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology, Medical.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Neuroradiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6552-2

Neuromuscular imaging has increasingly�become an important tool in the detection and diagnosis of inherited and acquired�neuromuscular disease. This book is a groundbreaking radiological and neurological�overview of current methods and applications of imagingincluding aspects of neuroimaging and mu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Ultrasound
• Computed Tomography
• Conventional MRI
• Advanced and Quantitative MRI Techniques
• Nuclear Medicine Methods
• Peripheral Nerve Imaging
• Introduction
• Morphology of Skeletal Muscle
• Atlas of Topographical Muscle Anatomy
• Normal Ageing Muscle Tissue
• Introduction
• Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies
• Metabolic Myopathies
• Congenital Myopathies
• Congenital Muscular Dystrophies
• Dystrophinopathies
• Emerinopathies and Laminopathies
• Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
• Myofibrillar Myopathies
• Distal Myopathies
• Myotonic Dystrophies
• Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy
• Oculo-Pharyngeal-Muscular Dystrophy
• Diagnostic Algorithms and Differential Diagnosis
• Inflammatory Myopathies
• Toxic and Drug-Induced Myopathies
• Muscle Neoplasm
• Motor Neuron Diseases
• Clinical Applications of Periperal Nerve Imaging.