Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine

Contributing Authors
Preface to the First Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments

VOLUME 1

Part I. Principles

Instrumentation:: Magnets, Coils, and Hardware
Contrast Development and Manipulation in MR Imaging
Principles of Image Formation
Contrast Agents and Relaxation Effects
Fundamentals of Flow and Hemodynamics
Fast Imaging Principles
Diffusion and Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging
Perfusion MR Imaging
Artifacts in MR

Part II. Brain

Disorders of Brain Development
Central Nervous System Manifestations of the Phakomatoses and Other Inherited Syndromes
Epilepsy
White Matter Diseases and Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Intraaxial Brain Tumors
Extraaxial Brain Tumors
Intracranial Hemorrhage
Intracranial Vascular Malformations and Aneurysms
Cerebral Ischemia and Infarction
MR Angiography:: Techniques and Clinical Applications
Head Trauma
Intracranial Infection
Normal Aging, Dementia, and Neurodegenerative Disease

VOLUME 2

Part III. Skull Base

The Skull Base
The Sella Turcica and Parasellar Region
Anatomy and Diseases of the Temporal Bone
The Eye, Orbit and Visual System

Part IV. Spine and Spinal Cord

Congenital Anomalies of the Spine and Spinal Cord:: Embryology and Malformations
Degenerative Disease of the Spine
Neoplastic Disease of the Spine and Spinal Cord
Spinal Trauma
Vascular Disorders of the Spine and Spinal Cord
Spinal Infection and Inflammatory Disorders

Part V. Advanced Applications

Clinical Functional MR Imaging
Psychiatric Disease
MR Spectroscopy and the Biochemical Basis of Neurological Disease

Subject Index