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 eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Neuroradiology.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Diagnostic Radiology.

Few advances in MR imaging have had the impact degenerative neurologic disorders, white matter d- that dif usion-weighted (DW) imaging has had in the eases, toxic/metabolic disorders, and tumors. As one evaluation of brain. From the time of the early de- can easily see from the table of contents, th...

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.