This book provides a comprehensive clinical review of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common genetic disorder of the heart characterized by dysfunctional contractility at the sarcomere level, resulting in the development of abnormal and occasionally focal hypertrophy on a macroscopic level.
Nuclear Medicine is a diagnostic modality which aims to image and in some cases quantify physiological processes in the body to highlight disease or injury.
In spite of medical advances and the increasing number of severely brain-injured patients, the assessment and treatment of patients recovering from coma remain challenging.
From choosing the relevant investigation through to interpretation and its effects on patient management, Radiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered provides an overview of the modern imaging department, including radiation and safety considerations, putting radiology in its clinical context.
With a large volume of ultrasound images and teaching videos, Pleural Ultrasound for Clinicians: A Text and E-book is a print and interactive digital resource that provides practical guidance for all those undertaking pleural ultrasound investigations and procedures.
Completely up to date with the latest examination changes, Get Through First FRCR: MCQs for the Physics Module offers a valuable insight into the new Physics module of the First FRCR examination.
Bringing together conventional contrast media studies, computed tomography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, radionuclide imaging including hybrid imaging using SPECT-CT and PET-CT, DXA studies and digital interventional procedures into one volume, this definitive book is the essential source of information on the use and application of these imaging modalities in radiography.
When a patient presents to the emergency department, in the GP practice, or in the outpatient clinic with a range of clinical signs, the chest x-ray is one of the most valuable diagnostic tools available to the attending physician.
In the emergency and trauma setting, accurate and consistent interpretation of imaging studies are critical to the care of acutely ill and injured patients.
Evidence-Based Imaging is a user-friendly guide to the evidence-based science and merit defining the appropriate use of medical imaging in both adult and pediatric patients.
This book is designed to provide a foundation for physicians-in-training and a quick guide to further enhance the skills set of practicing interventionalists.
Written as a concise, clinical guide to major interventional procedures impacting upon women's health, Women's Health in Interventional Radiology focuses on a wide range of vascular and non-vascular interventions commonly performed in daily practice, including those related to the pelvis, fallopian tube, spine, and lower extremities.
This book presents original case studies performed on dedicated PET-CT devices and showcases common and uncommon cancers and the latest PET-CT applications for neurological, pediatric, and cardiovascular disorders.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures quick, tiny metabolic changes that take place in the brain, providing the most sensitive method currently available for identifying, investigating, and monitoring brain tumors, stroke, and chronic disorders of the nervous system like multiple sclerosis, and brain abnormalities related to dementia or seizures.
This volume acquaints the non-neuropathologist with the advantages of clinical-radiologic-pathologic correlation in neuropathology specimens, particularly in the intra-operative consultation.
Functional Neuroradiology: Principles and Clinical Applications, is a follow-up to Faro and Mohamed's groundbreaking work, Functional (BOLD)MRI: Basic Principles and Clinical Applications.
With every chapter revised and updated, Physics for Diagnostic Radiology, Third Edition continues to emphasise the importance of physics education as a critical component of radiology training.
An innovative, three-dimensional x-ray imaging technique that enhances projection radiography by adding depth resolution, Tomosynthesis Imaging explores tomosynthesis, an emerging limited-angle tomographic imaging technology that is being considered for use in a range of clinical applications, and is currently being used for breast cancer screening
Improve the Accurate Detection and Diagnosis of Cancer and Other DiseasesDespite the expansion of the CAD field in recent decades, there is currently no single book dedicated to the development and use of CAD systems.
Targeted Molecular Imaging covers the development of novel diagnostic approaches that use an imaging probe and agent to noninvasively visualize cellular processes in normal and disease states.
Over the past decade interventional radiology techniques have replaced surgical and clinically guided diagnostic procedures such that the vast majority of patients have a non surgical diagnosis of a breast problem.
This book provides an in-depth review of knowledge of the corpus callosum, called white matter or terra incognita, with emphasis on anatomical, embryological, diagnostics, and surgical features.
This book describes the role of radioactivity in the living world and highlights the many aspects of the impact of ionizing radiation on biological systems.
The benchmark first edition of Forensic Radiology, published in 1998, was a milestone in the forensic community a "e; a bestseller throughout the world and a standard reference for practitioners and educators alike.
The Ischemic Penumbra presents the current status of concepts and research on this topic and identifies the latest methods for clinicians to quickly and efficiently recognize viable cerebral tissue for enhanced stroke management.
With the emergence of genetically manipulated laboratory mice as one of the most powerful tools for neuroscientists, imaging techniques capable of providing anatomical and functional information of small animals have become extremely important.
Musculoskeletal Radiology is a single-source guide encompassing all of musculoskeletal imaging, examining classical diseases, as well as modern interpretations of disease.
New Techniques in Cardiothoracic Imaging emphasizes emerging methods in computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron-emission tomography, and similar technology.
The only source to fully cover every aspect of brain embolism, this guide analyzes the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and management of this disorder-providing a detailed overview of major topics pertinent to embolism including donor sources, recipient sites, embolic material, recipient brain supply arteries, vascular and brain pathology, and the tre
This comprehensive reference discusses the use of ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and radioisotopes in the imaging of the adult and pediatric urinary tract.
This reference documents state-of-the-art trends and advancements in the utilization imaging modalities for the analysis of bones and their surrounding soft tissues, including muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and blood vessels.
