Cerebral Perfusion Studies in Substance Abuse and Dependence Linda Chang Santosh Yadav Thomas Ernst According to the World Drug Report from 2012, approximately 230 million people worldwide, or approximately 5%…
Perfusion and Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Imaging in White Matter Disease Matilde Inglese Jens Würfel Glyn Johnson The white matter of the brain is affected by many disease processes that can be…
Perfusion in Pharmacologic Imaging Fernando O. Zelaya María A. Fernández-Seara Kevin Black Steven C.R. Williams Mitul A. Mehta Pharmacokinetic imaging is a term used to broadly describe the use of…
Dementia and Degenerative Diseases Norbert Schuff Dementias, such as such as Alzheimer disease (AD), frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and Lewy body dementia (LBD) as well as other forms of neurodegenerative…
Myocardial Perfusion and Permeability Michael Jerosch-Herold Krishna Nayak Tim Leiner Rozemarijn Vliegenthart Sven Plein Vascular Supply of the Heart Pathophysiology of Myocardial Ischemia The heart is a metabolically highly active…
Oncology Drug Development Edward Ashton Philip F. Murphy James O’Connor Developments over the past two decades in the targeting of therapeutics, not just to particular diseases but also to specific…
Gastrointestinal Imaging Nyree Griffin Lee Grant Vicky Goh In the past decade, advances in computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology have allowed three-dimensional acquisitions with a high…
Clinical Applications of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Musculoskeletal Tumors June S. Taylor Wilburn E. Reddick Robert J. Canter The primary aims in imaging primary malignant bone and soft…
Renal Tumors Mark A. Rosen Stephen M. Keefe Priti Lal William M.F. Lee Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) serves as an excellent model for the application of perfusion and pharmacokinetic imaging…
Breast Cancer Bruce L. Daniel Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely accepted as a tool for imaging the breast because it detects more cancer than standard projection x-ray mammography (Fig….
