Established as the leading textbook on imaging diagnosis of brain and spine disorders, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine is now in its Fourth Edition. This thoroughly updated two-volume reference delivers cutting-edge information on nearly every aspect of clinical neuroradiology. Expert neuroradiologists, innovative renowned MRI physicists, and experienced leading clinical neurospecialists from all over the world show how to generate state-of-the-art images and define diagnoses from crucial clinical/pathologic MR imaging correlations for neurologic, neurosurgical, and psychiatric diseases spanning fetal CNS anomalies to disorders of the aging brain. Highlights of this edition include over 6,800 images of remarkable quality, more color images, and new information using advanced techniques, including perfusion and diffusion MRI and functional MRI.

A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.

• The leading textbook on MRI diagnosis of brain and spine disorders
• Over 6,800 images of remarkable quality
• Cutting-edge information on nearly every aspect of clinical neuroradiology along the entire spectrum of disorders of the fetal CNS all the way to those affecting the aging brain
• Clinical/pathologic MR imaging correlations for virtually all neurologic and neurosurgical diseases

FOURTH EDITION HIGHLIGHTS:

• More color images
• New information on advanced techniques and emerging clinical applications, including perfusion and diffusion MRI, functional MRI, in utero fetal CNS anomalies, and neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases

Contents

VOLUME ONE

Principles
Instrumentation: Magnets, Coils, and Hardware
Contrast Development and Manipulation in MR Imaging
Principles of Image Formation
Fundamentals of Flow and Hemodynamics
Fast Imaging Principles
Artifacts in MR

Brain
Disorders of Brain Development
The Phakomatoses and Other Inherited Syndromes
Epilepsy
White Matter Diseases and Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Adult Brain Tumors
Pediatric Brain Tumors
Intracranial Hemorrhage
Intracranial Vascular Malformations and Aneurysms
Cerebral Ischemia and Infarction
MR Angiography: Techniques and Clinical Applications
Head Trauma
Intracranial Infection
Normal Aging, Dementia, and Neurodegenerative Disease
Clifford R. Jack, Jr., Frank J. Lexa, John Q. Trojanowski, Bruce H. Braffman, and Scott Atlas

VOLUME TWO

Skull Base
The Skull Base
The Sella Turcica and Parasellar Region
Anatomy and Diseases of the Temporal Bone
Eye, Orbit, and Visual System

Spine and Spinal Cord
Congenital Anomalies of the Spine and Spinal Cord: Embryology and Malformations
Degenerative Disease of the Spine
Neoplastic Disease of the Spine and Spinal Cord
Spinal Trauma
Vascular Disorders of the Spine and Spinal Cord
Spinal Infection and Inflammatory Disorders

Advanced Applications
Fetal Brain and Spine MRI
Diffusion and Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Principles
Perfusion MR Imaging
Clinical Functional MR Imaging
Psychiatric Disease
MR Spectroscopy and the Biochemical Basis of Neurological Disease
Contrast Agents and Molecular MR