Abstract Prior to the widespread use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the diagnosis of acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) was largely based on clinical history, physical examination, plain film…
Abstract The introduction of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the field of spinal cord injury (SCI) has vastly improved the diagnosis of injury level and severity as well as the…
Abstract The spinal cord is commonly affected in inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDD) of the central nervous system. In the most common IDD, multiple sclerosis (MS), the importance of spinal cord…
Abstract In vivo spinal cord imaging is now commonly used to diagnose patients with neurodegenerative disorders. Quantitative MRI (qMRI) techniques applied to the spinal cord show promise for predicting prognosis…
Chapter contents I. COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANS 50 A. Computed tomography: axial cranial bone anatomy 50 B. Computed tomography: coronal cranial bone anatomy 56 C. Computed tomography: sagittal cranial bone anatomy…
Intracranial anatomy is highly complex and well beyond the scope of this book. However, a number of structures are closely related to visual function and form the neural pathways for…
Magnetism is a property of matter. It results from electrons orbiting around atoms, and these spinning electrons cause the atom to have a magnetic moment. The magnetic field strength is…
The skull is composed of two segments, the cranium and the face. The cranium is the major portion and it consists of three unpaired bones, the sphenoid, occipital, and ethmoid…
In 1895 the German physicist Wilhem Konrad Röntgen discovered X-rays. He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901 for this discovery. Medical imaging based on this technology…
Key Points ▪ CT scanning is the dominant imaging test for the assessment of acute aortic diseases. ▪ Without ECG-gating, motion artifacts are still a problem for assessment of the…
