Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain

• Main Authors: Moritani, Toshio. (Author), Ekholm, Sven. (Author), Westesson, Per-Lennart. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology, Medical.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Neuroradiology.; Diagnostic Radiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78785-3

This practical-minded text helps the radiologist and the clinician understand diffusion-weighted MR imaging. The books 15 chapters range from basic principles to interpretation of diffusion-weighted MR imaging and specific disease. In this second edition, diffusion tensor imaging (fractional anisot...

Table of Contents:

• Principles of diffusion-weighted imaging
• Normal brain and artifacts
• Brain edema: Classification. Cytotoxic edema. Edema of neuron and glial cell. Intramyelinic edema. Axonal edema. Vasogenic edema
• Infarction: Arterial infarction. Venous infarction
• Dementia: Alzheimer's. Multi-infarct dementia. Other dementias. HIV dementia
• Hemorrhage
• Vasculitis/Vasculopathy: Behcet. Systemic lupus erythematosus. Posterior reversal encephalopathy syndrome. Drug induced
• Epilepsy: Postictal encephalopathy. Status epilepticus
• Demyelinating and degenerative diseases: ADEM. Multiple sclerosis. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Toxic and metabolic diseases: Drug-induced encephalopathy. Mitochondrial encephalopathy. Phenylketonuria. Osmotic myelinolysis. Marchiafava-Bignami disease
• Infectious diseases: Brain abscess. Extra-axial abscess. Encephalitis. Septic emboli
• Trauma: Diffuse axonal injury. Brain contusion
• Brain neoplasm: Epidermoid. Meningioma. Lymphoma. GBM. Metastasis. PNET
• Pediatrics.