Book description
The content of this volume has been added to
eMagRes (formerly Encyclopedia of Magnetic
Resonance) - the ultimate
online resource for NMR and MRI.
Up to now MRI could not be used clinically for imaging fine
structures of bones or muscles. Since the late 1990s however, the
scene has changed dramatically. In particular, Graeme Bydder and his
many collaborators have demonstrated the possibility - and importance
- of imaging structures in the body that were previously regarded as
being “MR Invisible”. The images obtained with a variety of these
newly developed methods exhibit complex contrast, resulting in a new
quality of images for a wide range of new applications.
This Handbook is designed to enable the radiology community to begin
their assessment of how best to exploit these new capabilities. It is
organised in four major sections - the first of which, after an
Introduction, deals with the basic science underlying the rest of the
contents of the Handbook. The second, larger, section describes the
techniques which are used in recovering the short T2 and T2* data from
which the images are reconstructed. The third and fourth sections
present a range of applications of the methods described earlier. The
third section deals with pre-clinical uses and studies, while the
final section describes a range of clinical applications. It is this
last section that will surely have the biggest impact on the
development in the next few years as the huge promise of Short T2
and T2* Imaging will be exploited to the benefit of patients.
In many instances, the authors of an article are the only research
group who have published on the topic they describe. This demonstrates
that this Handbook presents a range of methods and applications with a
huge potential for future developments.
About EMR Handbooks / eMagRes Handbooks
The Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (up to 2012) and
eMagRes (from 2013 onward) publish a wide range of online
articles on all aspects of magnetic resonance in physics, chemistry,
biology and medicine. The existence of this large number of articles,
written by experts in various fields, is enabling the publication of a
series of
EMR Handbooks / eMagRes Handbooks on specific areas of
NMR and MRI. The chapters of each of these handbooks will comprise a
carefully chosen selection of articles from eMagRes. In
consultation with the eMagRes Editorial Board, the
EMR Handbooks / eMagRes Handbooks are coherently planned
in advance by specially-selected Editors, and new articles are written
(together with updates of some already existing articles) to give
appropriate complete coverage. The handbooks are intended to be of
value and interest to research students, postdoctoral fellows and
other researchers learning about the scientific area in question and
undertaking relevant experiments, whether in academia or industry.
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