MR Spectroscopy of the Brain

Download or read book MR Spectroscopy of the Brain written by Lara Alexandre Brandão and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a practical guide to the technique and most frequent clinical applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of the brain. Using more than 500 images, the authors present the fundamentals of MRS in a straightforward fashion and show radiologists and neurologists how to recognize normal and disease processes on scans. The book presents the spectra of the most common neurological disease entities, along with the conventional images and perfusion and diffusion where appropriate. The authors thoroughly describe the pathology and key MRS features of each disease process. Each chapter ends with a quick-reference summary of the main findings.