High-Field MR Imaging

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hennig, Jürgen (Editor), Speck, Oliver (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Medical Radiology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Diagnostic Radiology.

This book describes the current status of the very rapidly developing field of high-field MR and examines the possibilities, challenges, and limitations of this fascinating technology. In the initial chapters, the basic technological background is explained in a non-technical way so as to promote un...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Technologies: Magnets
• Gradients
• RF coils
• Part II: Safety: Safety
• Part III: Methods and Contrasts: What to do with all that signal: Issues of High Resolution MRI
• Contrasts, Mechanisms & Sequences
• Part IV: Applications: Neuroscience
• Clinical Neuro and beyond
• Oncology
• Musculoskeletal
• Spectroscopy.-Molecular and Translational Research.-Subject Index.