Full Description
A volume of essays on recent developments in medical imaging techniques, which explores such topics as magnetic resonance spectroscopy of skeletal muscle, liver-specific particulate contrast agents, arterial calcifications in thoracoabdominal computer tomography, and more.
Contents
Abdominal and Thoracic Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Challenges, Technical Approaches, and First Clinical Applications.- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Skeletal Muscle.- Hepatic Tumors: Relaxometry and Quantitative Tissue Characterization with Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Liver-Specific Particulate Contrast Agents: An Overview.- Contrast Medium Induced Nephropathy: Animal Experiments.- Rheological Properties of Blood after Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization with Iopromide.- Color-Coded Doppler Sonography of the Male Urethra During Voiding: New Observations of Flow in an Aqueous Medium and Their Physical Foundations.- Development of a Model of Arterial Stenosis Analysis Using Digital Subtraction Angiography: A Parametric Study of Image Quality.- Arterial Calcifications in Thoracoabdominal Computer Tomography: Frequency, and Correlation with Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Diseases.- In Vitro Assessment of the DIL and Greenfield Vena Cava Filter System.- Artifacts in MRI: A Proposal for Classification Based upon the Encoding Process.- Noninvasive Thermometry and Reconstruction of Planar Temperature Distribution.
