Full Description
This timely book presents innovative technologies for use in the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of brain disease. These technologies offer exciting possibilities in the medical field owing to their low-cost, portability and safety.
The authors address cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke, ischemia, haemorrhage, and vasospasm, these diseases having an ever-increasing societal relevance due to the global ageing population. The authors describe the potential of novel techniques such as microwave imaging and present innovative modalities for treatment of brain tumours using electromagnetic fields and nano-composites, as well as for monitoring brain temperature during surgery. Finally, Emerging Electromagnetic Technologies for Brain Diseases Diagnostics, Monitoring and Therapy addresses the perspectives which arise from multi-modal multi-spectral EM modalities, which make a synergic use of the different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
This text will be of interest to readers from various different areas, given the fundamental interdisciplinarity of the subject matter. This includes researchers or practitioners in the field of electrical engineering, applied physicists, and applied mathematicians working on imaging applications for biomedical and electromagnetic technologies. Neurologists and radiologists may also find this book of interest, as may graduate students in these areas.
Contents
Introduction by Editors.- Monitoring of Brain Function in Neurointensive Care.- Microwave Technology for Brain Imaging and Monitoring.- Microwave Imaging for Continuous Monitoring of Brain Stroke.- Electromagnetic Tomography for Brain Imaging and Stroke Diagnostics: Progress Towards Clinical.- Optical Tomography of the Brain.- Microwave Radiometry for Non-invasive Monitoring of Brain Temperature.- Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia.- Local Treatment of Brain Tumors and the Blood-Brain Barrier.- Towards Multispectral Multimodal Non-ionizing Diagnosis and Therapy.
