Medical imaging

Managing COPD is an in-depth guide on the management of patients with COPD concentrating on the impact of COPD on a patient as well as how healthcare professionals can intervene and educate the patient at an early stage and thereby slow the onset of severe symptoms.

Treatment tolerance is a challenge for most cancer patients, and it is therefore essential that healthcare professionals (HCPs) are quick to recognize adverse events and implement management strategies to address them.

Over the past 30 years there have been significant advances in our understanding of multiple sclerosis (MS) due to the use of MRIs to better visualize the disease and because of the introduction of new ameliorating drugs.

Diagnostic imaging is widely used in health care to arrive at a diagnosis of illness and to guide therapeutic techniques to alleviate, and in some cases cure, illness.

An illustrated and concise revision textbook, this book is designed for doctors training in radiology and preparing for the First FRCR exam.

Reflecting the latest change to the exam, the introduction of single best answer questions (SBAs), this book is completely up to date and offers a valuable insight into the new exam format.

This book promotes a greater understanding of the principles of panoramic radiography by simplifying the complexities that often exist in larger texts.

Imaging is a key part of clinical practice.

In today's healthcare environment, the real driver is value.

The focus of this new book is for medicinal chemists on the chemical agents that have been used, or might be required in the future, and the methods of synthesis for inserting the reporter groups.

The area of molecular imaging has matured over the past decade and is still growing rapidly.

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014Since the publication of the first edition of this volume, 3D echocardiography has become a more frequent tool in diagnostic technology and patient care, while technology advancements have vastly improved this powerful imaging modality.

Written by internationally renowned authors, this title is an invaluable reference for all those required to report on MR examinations, with accurate cancer staging aided by the extensive use of high quality MR images of pelvic cancer.

Since the publication of the first edition of this volume, interest in neurointerventional therapy has developed at an increasing pace.

This second edition of the Transesophageal Echocardiography Multimedia Manual is a comprehensive resource and essential guide to the rapidly expanding field of perioperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), encompassing newer cardiac surgery techniques, more diverse surgical procedures, and use in the intensive care unit.

This long-awaited Third Edition has been revised and updated to encapsulate the developments in the field since the previous edition was published nearly two decades ago.

There is much discussion in the field of interventional cardiovascular therapy as to what is the best approach to treating coronary bifurcation lesions.

The tools necessary for correctly identifying complex coronary lesions and plaques.

As in all specialties, learning in radiology is a life long process but for radiologists in training there is a vast amount of information to assimilate.

This self-assessment colour review will be useful to neurologists and neuroradiologists in training and practice as it covers the full spectrum of neurological disease using modern imaging techniques - MRI, CT, invasive and non-invasive vascular imaging.

A host of imaging techniques are available to clinical cardiologists, including nuclear imaging, echocardiography, computerized tomography, and magnetic-resonance imaging.

There have been many great advances in the field of biomedical imaging in recent years, with supramolecular chemistry playing a key role in the evolution of modern imaging techniques.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge technologies in the diagnosis of multiple cardiovascular disease.

The idea that a long-lived form of spin order, namely singlet order, can be prepared from nuclear spin magnetisation first emerged in 2004.

The idea that a long-lived form of spin order, namely singlet order, can be prepared from nuclear spin magnetisation first emerged in 2004.

The medical MRI community is by far the largest user of diffusion NMR techniques and this book captures the current surge of methods and provides a primary source to aid adoption in this field.

The medical MRI community is by far the largest user of diffusion NMR techniques and this book captures the current surge of methods and provides a primary source to aid adoption in this field.

The combination of two leading imaging techniques - magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography - is poised to have a large impact and has recently been a driver of research and clinical applications.

Molecular imaging of drugs or drug carriers is a valuable tool that can provide important information on spatiotemporal distribution of drugs, allowing improved drug distribution at target sites.

The combination of two leading imaging techniques - magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography - is poised to have a large impact and has recently been a driver of research and clinical applications.

As a practical reference guide for designing and performing experiments, this book focuses on the five most common classes of contrast agents for MRI namely gadolinium complexes, chemical exchange saturation transfer agents, iron oxide nanoparticles, manganese complexes and fluorine contrast agents.

Spin relaxation parameters, although difficult to interpret, are attracting interest in NMR as these parameters are capable of yielding both structural and dynamic information.

Molecular imaging of drugs or drug carriers is a valuable tool that can provide important information on spatiotemporal distribution of drugs, allowing improved drug distribution at target sites.

As a practical reference guide for designing and performing experiments, this book focuses on the five most common classes of contrast agents for MRI namely gadolinium complexes, chemical exchange saturation transfer agents, iron oxide nanoparticles, manganese complexes and fluorine contrast agents.

All the guidance you need to enhance your understanding and clinical application of ultrasoundIncludes DVD with video of key techniquesSurgical and Interventional Ultrasound offers a thorough survey of image-guided treatments in the OR, in the endoscopy suite, and at the bedside.

This second edition, comprising 28 chapters, explains every aspect of the role of radiographers in performing CT colonography (CTC) and interpreting CTC images with the aim of enabling radiographers to extend the scope of their practice.

The area of molecular imaging has matured over the past decade and is still growing rapidly.

Following the new format of the First FRCR Anatomy Examination and based on the syllabus of the Royal College of Radiology, this unique revision tool is more complete and detailed than any other guide on the market.

This book presents the design, synthesis, characterization, and advanced applications of nanomaterials and nanodevices in biology and medicine.

This is the first book that presents a comprehensive introduction to and overview of electro-magnetic tissue property imaging techniques using MRI, focusing on Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT), Electrical Properties Tomography (EPT) and Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM).

The area of molecular imaging has matured over the past decade and is still growing rapidly.

Significant numbers of physicists began working in association with hospitals following the discovery of X-Rays and radioactivity in the late 1890s.

Molecular imaging is a rapidly emerging field that translates many concepts developed for molecular biology and cellular imaging to the in vivo imaging of intact organisms.

Providing the first comprehensive book on the current state of hyperpolarized Xenon-129 NMR and MRI, this book is guaranteed to appeal to a wide range of scientists interested in this growing field.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is increasingly being used amongst health practitioners in combating a variety of diseases.

Spin relaxation parameters, although difficult to interpret, are attracting interest in NMR as these parameters are capable of yielding both structural and dynamic information.

This book covers the recent NMR studies with the application of gaseous molecules.

In the last decade, bioimaging and therapy based on near-infrared (NIR) nanomaterials have played an important role in biotechnology due to their intrinsic advantages when compared with the traditional imaging probe and medicine.