MRI Susceptibility Weighted Imaging in MRI discusses the promising new MRI technique called Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI), a powerful tool for the diagnosis and treatment of acute stroke, allowing earlier detection of acute stroke hemorrhage and easier detection of microbleeds in acute ischemia.

Presenting an even balance between technical/scientific aspects of the modality and clinical application, this book includes over 100 super high-quality radiographic images and 100 additional graphics and tables.

Contents

Part I: Basic Concepts

1. Introduction to Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
2. Magnetic Susceptibility
3. Gradient Echo Imaging
4. Phase and Its Relationship to Imaging Parameters and Susceptability
5. Understanding T2-Related Signal Loss
6. Processing Concepts and SWI Filtered Phase Images
7. MR Angiography and Venography of the Brain
8. Brain Anatomy with Phase

Part II: Current Efforts in Clinical Translational Research Using SWI

9. SWI Venography Anatomy of the Cerebrum
10. Novel Approaches to Imaging Brain Tumors
11. Traumatic Brain Injury
12. Imaging Cerebral Microbleeds with SWI
13. Imaging Ischemic Stroke and Hemorrhage with SWI
14. Visualizing Deep Medullary Veins with SWI in Newborn and Young Infants
15. Susceptibility Weighted Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis
16. Cerebral Venous Diseases and Occult Intracranial Vascular Malformations
17. Sturge-Weber Syndrome
18. Visualizing the Vessel Wall Using Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
19. Imaging Breast Calcification Using SWI
20. Susceptibility Weighted Imaging at Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields

Part III: Advanced Concepts

21. Improved Contrast in MR Imaging of the Midbrain Using SWI
22. Measuring Iron Content with Phase
23. Validation of Phase Iron Detection with Synchrotron X-Ray Fluorescence
24. Rapid Calculation of Magnetic Field Perturbations from Biological Tissue in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
25. SWIM: Susceptibility Mapping as a Means to Visualize Veins and Quantify Oxygen Saturation
26. Effects of Contrast Agents in Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
27. Oxygen Saturation: Quantification
28. Quantification of Oxygen Saturation of Single Cerebral Veins, the Blood Capillary Network, and Its Dependency on Perfusion
29. Integrating Perfusion Weighted Imaging, MR Angiography, and Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
30. Functional Susceptibility Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
31. Complex Thresholding Methods for Eliminating Voxels That Contain Predominantly Noise in Magnetic Resonance Images
32. Automatic Vein Segmentation and Lesion Detection: from SWI-MIPs to MR Venograms
33. Rapid Acquisition Methods
34. High-Resolution Venographic BOLD MRI of Animal Brain at 9.4 T: Implications for BOLD fMRI
35. Susceptibility Weighted Imaging in Rodents
36. Ultrashort TE Imaging: Phase and Frequency Mapping of Susceptibility Effects in Short T2 Tissues of the Musculoskeletal System

Appendix: Seminal Articles Related to the Development of Susceptibility Weighted Imaging

Index

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