Current Protocols in Magnetic Reasonance Imaging
Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contributors

A CLINICAL PROTOCOLS

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS
A1 Intracranial Arterial Disease
A1.1 Cerebral Infarct/Intracranial Cerebrovascular Disease
A1.2 Rule Out (R/O) Intracranial Aneurysm 
A1.3 Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease
A1.4 High-Resolution Multi-Contrast MRI of the Carotid Artery Wall for Evaluation of Atherosclerotic Plaques  

A2 Cerebral Venous Lesions
A2.1 Imaging Dural Sinus Thrombosis
A2.2 Imaging Cavernous Malformations 
A2.3 Imaging Venous Angiomas (New, June 2003)

A3 Cerebral Neoplastic Disease

A3.1 Metastatic Intra-Axial Neoplasia
A3.2 Metastatic Extra-Axial Neoplasia
A3.3 Intra-Axial Primary Brain Tumors
A3.4 Extra-Axial Tumors
A3.5 Monitoring Tumor Therapy 

A4 Infectious Diseases of the Brain
A4.1 Brain Abscess
A4.2 Meningitis
A4.3 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) 
A4.4 Traumatic Brain Injury 

A5 Miscellaneous Brain Pathology
A5.1 Multiple Sclerosis
A5.2 Pituitary 
A5.3 Dementia 

A6 Clinical Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
A6.1 Clinical Applications of fMRI
A6.2 Quality Assurance for Clinical fMRI
A6.3 Paradigms for Clinical fMRI
A6.4 Diffusion Tensor Imaging

A7 Head and Neck
A7.1 Cranial Nerve I
A7.2 Cranial Nerves III to VI
A7.3 Cranial Nerves VII to VIII
A7.4 Cranial Nerves IX to XII
A7.5 The Orbit and Optic Nerves
A7.6 Imaging of the Paranasal Sinuses
A7.7 Lymph Node Staging in the Neck (New, June 2003)

A8 Extradural Spine
A8.1 Herniated Intervertebral Disc
A8.2 Spinal Canal Stenosis
A8.3 Spondylosis Deformans 
A8.4 Spinal Inflammation 
A8.5 Spinal Primary Neoplasia/Metastasis
A8.6 Spinal Trauma
A8.7 Extradural Spinal Cord/Cauda Equina Compression 
A8.8 Post Surgical Spinal Evaluation (New, March 2003)

A9 Intradural Spine
A9.1 Intramedullary Spine Disease

A10 Congenital Heart Disease
A10.1 Congenital Cardiac Pathology
A10.2 Assessment of Right Ventricular Dysplasia

A11 Acquired Heart Disease
A11.1 Pericardial Disease
A11.2 Cardiac Masses
A11.3 Myocardial Perfusion and Viability
A11.4 Cardiac Function Evaluation with Cine MRI of the Heart (New, March 2003)

A12 Acquired Aortic Disease
A12.1 Aortic Dissection
A12.2 Aortic Aneurysm and Pseudoaneurysm Assessment 

A13 Pulmonary Artery, Mediastinum, Pleura, and Lung
A13.1 Pulmonary Embolism
A13.2 Deep Vein Thrombosis Detection 

A14 Chest Wall
A14.1 Brachial Plexus

A15 Liver
A15.1 MRI of the Liver
A15.2 Hepatic MRI for GE Scanners 

A16 Kidney
A16.1 MRI of the Kidneys
A17 Adrenal Glands
A17.1 MRI of the Adrenal Glands

A18 Pancreas
A18.1 MRI of the Pancreas

A19 Male Pelvis
A19.1 MRI of the Male Pelvis

A20 Female Pelvis
A20.1 MRI of the Female Pelvis
A20.2 Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis and Staging 
A20.3 Pelvic Floor Relaxation (New, March 2003)

A21 Breast
A21.1 MRI of Breast Lesions
A21.2 Silicone Breast Implants

A22 Shoulder
A22.1 Rotator Cuff Disease
A22.2 MR Arthrography of Shoulder 

 A23 Knee
A23.1 MRI of the Acute Injured Knee 
A23.2 MRI of the Post-Operative Meniscus and ACL Graft

A24 Musculoskeletal Stress Injuries
A24.1 Bone Stress Injuries 

A25 Ankle and Foot
A25.1 MRI of the Ankle and Hindfoot 

A26 Hip
A26.1 Abnormalities of the Osseous Structures of the Hip and Peri-Articular Soft Tissues 
A26.2 Hip MR Arthrography for Acetabular Labral Tears (New, March 2003)

A27 Elbow
A27.1 Traumatic and Overuse Injuries of the Elbow New, June 2003
A27.2 Masses of the Elbow and Forearm (New, June 2003) Chapter A27 Elbow

A28 Magnetic Resonance Angiography
A28.1 Contrast-Enhanced Renal MRA HTML PDF (Size 647KB)

A29 Gastrointestinal Tract
A29.1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Gastrointestinal Tract

B BASIC CONCEPTS

B1 Spin Behavior
B1.1 Magnetic Moment of a Spin, Its Equation of Motion, and Precession
B1.2 Spin Behavior in the Rotating Reference Frame 
B1.3 Fundamental Properties of Magnetization

B2 Radiofrequency Excitation and Reception
B2.1 Signal Detection
B2.2 Radiofrequency Excitation
B2.3 Nulling Signal of a Slice, Slice Select Profile, and Radiofrequency Power 

B3 Basic Spin Properties and the Bloch Equations
B3.1 Spin Density, T₁, T₂, T₂^* Relaxation and Bloch Equations

B4 Imaging Concepts
B4.1 Spin and Gradient Echoes
B4.2 One-Dimensional Fourier Imaging and k-Space

B5 Sequences
B5.1 Short T_R, Spoiled, Gradient Echo Imaging
B5.2 Short-T_R, Coherent, Gradient Echo Imaging 

B6 Signal, Noise, and Contrast
B6.1 Signal and Noise
B6.2 Signal-to-Noise Ratio as a Function of Imaging Parameters  
B6.3 Contrast  
B6.4 Contrast Agents  

B7 Motion Artifacts, Motion Compensation, and Magnetic Resonance Angiography
B7.1 Phase Dependence on Motion
B7.2 Motion Compensation Along All Three Different Directions
B7.3 Magnetic Resonance Angiography

B8 Diffusion
B8.1 Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging  

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems and Equipment Suppliers HTML
Screening Forms for Patients for MR Procedures and Individuals for the MR Environment HTML PDF (Size 181KB)
Imaging Parameters Used in the Sequence Tables HTML PDF (Size 35KB)
MR Safety Guide Appendices

Supplier Appendix

Index

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