Diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases can prove particularly intimidating to clinicians, because many times the diagnosis cannot be critically “confirmed” by a simple test. New imaging modalities have advanced to the point of high resolution, morphological, metabolic and functional analysis. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine and molecular imaging have recently emerged as outstanding non-invasive techniques for the study of the neurodegenerative disorders.

Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders covers all the imaging techniques and new exciting methods like new tracers, biomarker, metabolomic and gene-array profiling, potential for applying such techniques clinically, and offers present and future applications as applied to the neurodegenerative disorders with the most world renowned scientists in these fields. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers, clinicians, and trainees in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and radiology.

About the Author

Luca Saba, Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Cagliari, Italy

Luca Saba received the MD from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 2002. Today he works in the Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria of Cagliari. Dr Saba research fields are focused on Multi-Detector-Row Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Ultrasound, Neuroradiology, and Diagnostic in Vascular Sciences.
Dr. Saba has won 15 scientific and extracurricular awards during his career. He has presented more than 450 papers and posters in National and International Congress (RSNA, ESGAR, ECR, ISR, AOCR, AINR, JRS, SIRM, AINR). He wrote 18 book-chapters and he is Editor of 7 books in the field of Computed Tomography, Cardiovascular, Plastic Surgery, Gynecological Imaging and Neurodegenerative imaging.
He is member of the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM), European Society of Radiology (ESR), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) and European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR) and serves as Reviewer of more than 30 scientific journals.

Contents

Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Imaging technique
Section 3 Neurodegeneration: cognition
Section 4 Neurodegeneration: movement
Section 5 Neurodegeneration: strength
Section 6 Neurodegeneration: coordination
Section 7 Neurodegeneration: peripheral and autonomic nervous systems
Section 8 Neurodegeneration: myelin
Section 9 Neurodegeneration: trauma
Section 10 Neuroimaging after therapy