Full Description
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a 'go-to' reference for methods and applications of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging, with specific sections on Relaxometry, Perfusion, and Diffusion.Each section will start with an explanation of the basic techniques for mapping the tissue property in question, including a description of the challenges that arise when using these basic approaches. For properties which can be measured in multiple ways, each of these basic methods will be described in separate chapters. Following the basics, a chapter in each section presents more advanced and recently proposed techniques for quantitative tissue property mapping, with a concluding chapter on clinical applications.
The reader will learn:
The basic physics behind tissue property mapping
How to implement basic pulse sequences for the quantitative measurement of tissue properties
The strengths and limitations to the basic and more rapid methods for mapping the magnetic relaxation properties T1, T2, and T2*
The pros and cons for different approaches to mapping perfusion
The methods of Diffusion-weighted imaging and how this approach can be used to generate diffusion tensor
maps and more complex representations of diffusion
How flow, magneto-electric tissue property, fat fraction, exchange, elastography, and temperature mapping are performed
How fast imaging approaches including parallel imaging, compressed sensing, and Magnetic Resonance
Fingerprinting can be used to accelerate or improve tissue property mapping schemes
How tissue property mapping is used clinically in different organs
Contents
Introduction
SECTION 1 Relaxometry
1. Biophysical and Physiological Principles of T1 and T2
2. Quantitative T1 and T1r Mapping
3. Quantitative T2 and T2* Mapping
4. Multiproperty Mapping Methods
5. Specialized Mapping Methods in the Heart
6. Advances in Signal Processing for Relaxometry
7. Relaxometry: Applications in the Brain
8. Relaxometry: Applications in Musculoskeletal Systems
9. Relaxometry: Applications in the Body
10. Relaxometry: Applications in the Heart
SECTION 2 Perfusion and Permeability
11. Physical and Physiological Principles of Perfusion and Permeability
12. Arterial Spin Labeling MRI: Basic Physics, Pulse Sequences, and Modeling
13. Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI: Basic Physics, Pulse Sequences, and Modeling
14. Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI: Basic Physics, Pulse Sequences, and Modeling
15. Applications of Quantitative Perfusion and Permeability in the Brain
16. Applications of Quantitative Perfusion and Permeability in the Liver
17. Applications of Quantitative Perfusion and Permeability in the Body
SECTION 3 Diffusion
18. Physical and Physiological Principles of Diffusion
19. Acquisition of Diffusion MRI Data
20. Modeling Fiber Orientations Using Diffusion MRI
21. Diffusion MRI Fiber Tractography
22. Measuring Microstructural Features Using Diffusion MRI
23. Diffusion MRI: Applications in the Brain
24. Diffusion MRI: Applications Outside the Brain
SECTION 4 Fat and Iron Quantification
25. Physical and Physiological Properties of Fat
26. Physical and Physiological Properties of Iron
27. Fat Quantification Techniques
28. Applications of Fat Mapping
29. Iron Mapping Techniques and Applications
SECTION 5 Quantification of Other MRI-Accessible Tissue Properties
30. Electrical Properties Mapping
31. Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
32. Magnetization Transfer
33. Chemical Exchange Mapping
34. MR Thermometry
35. Motion Encoded MRI and Elastography
36. Flow Quantification with MRI
37. Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging
