Medical imaging

This edited volume will focus on the advanced elements of computed tomography for an array of audiences, but more specifically, to undergraduate and postgraduate radiographers or CT technologists.

This comprehensive guide provides a uniquely practical, application-focused introduction to medical image analysis.

Interventional radiology has seen a dramatic increase in the number of minimally invasive therapies performed.

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This book covers a broad area of engineering research in translational medicine.

The field of structural heart disease interventions is experiencing a stage of rapid growth with the development of percutaneous mitral valve repair therapies and percutaneous aortic valve replacement therapies.

This textbook is alone in focusing on the subject of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in pediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease.

This book reviews the surgical management of the mitral and tricuspid valves.

There is no standard textbook at this time on endovascular management of thoracic aortic pathologies.

The first edition of this book provided a convenient passage through the minefield of skeletal dysplasia terminology and diag- nosis, and has proved of immense value to its users.

Diffuse Lung Disorders aims to bring together pathologists, clinicians and diagnostic radiologists to produce a simplified analysis and a unification of the existing concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of diffuse lung diseases.

One of the most important developments in diagnostic imaging over the last decade has been magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Osteoporosis in Clinical Practice provides a concise review of the current knowledge of osteoporosis.

Radiotherapy or radiation therapeutics, as the name suggests, is a branch of general therapeutics.

The skeleton is involved to a significant extent in more than 500 genetic and congenital syndromes and although the majority of these are individually rare, collectively they are not uncommon.

The last decade has seen a rapid expansion in the range and sophistication of diagnostic imaging modalities which are available to clinicians.

Vascular care has evolved from conservative therapy and open surgical therapy to a minimally invasive approach using endovascular techniques, laparoscopic or thoracoscopic techniques as well as hybrids of open and endovascular techniques.

Radiology of the Post Surgical Abdomen provides a comprehensive overview of all abdominal operations involving the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, hepatobiliary and genitourinary systems.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of medical image analysis.

We welcome the publication of this volume, which discusses the diagnosis of bone tumours with particular reference to children and adolescents.

This book will be an introduction to bone metastases for orthopaedic surgeons.

This text evolved as a response to numerous requests to present a simplified approach to the diagnosis and management of most of the common aspects of both cosmetic and medical venous disorders.

Atlas of Anatomic Pathology with Imaging - A Correlative Diagnostic Companion is a valuable teaching tool for medical students and residents in several specialities such as pathology, radiology, internal medicine, surgery and neurologic sciences.

This book is ideal for cardiovascular imagers of all backgrounds as well as proceduralists (surgeons and interventional cardiologists) performing TAVR.

Pathology of the Pancreas: A Practical Approach covers all the diagnostic entities in adult pancreatic pathology, providing extensive illustrations and tables to assist the pathologist at the time of diagnostic reporting of histological and cytological specimens.

Imaging and Technology: Principles and Clinical Applications is a practical and user-friendly consolidated source book for urologists, and urologists in training, regarding the basic science of imaging modalities used on a day-to-day basis in urological practice.

This book presents fifty clinical cases in neuro-ophthalmology, some of which are common and some of which are rare.

Vortex Formation in the Cardiovascular System will recapitulate the current knowledge about the vortex formation in the cardiovascular system, from mechanics to cardiology.

This book presents the latest research pertaining to the diagnosis, therapy and management of diffuse low-grade gliomas (DLGG) in adults, with a particular focus on the path towards individualised therapy for this kind of tumour.

Professor Caplan has extensively edited the book to shape and organize the contents into a succinct presentation by experts of the basic science and clinical aspects of the topic.

All unsuccessful revolutions are the same, but each successful one is different in its own distinctive way.

Trauma to various organ systems is a common medical problem in the pediatric age group.

Pediatric body CT began in earnest in 1976 when for the first time a body CT machine was installed in a pediatric institution, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Both the investigation and treatment of cancer of the oesophagus are comprehensively presented in Management of Oesophageal Carcinoma.

Radiotherapy as practiced at the renowned Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute is brought up to date in this new, second edition of The Radiotherapy of Malignant Disease.

The events of September 11,2001 in the United States will always be r~membered with horror and sadness but also admiration for those who risked, and often lost, their lives attempting to save others.

CT scanning is now an integral part of everyday diagnostic procedure, yet the imaging technique must be good if the diagnosis is to be accurated.

A thorough knowledge of normal radiological anatomy is necessary for detection and evaluation of pathological changes.

In recent decades imaging has proved one of the most rapidly expanding areas of medicine.

During recent decades there has been a revolutionary change in the life expectancy and quality of life of the hemophiliac.

Much confusion exists in the accurate identification and classification of the many disorders in infancy which affect the skeleton by producing sclerosing lesions throughout the entire skeleton or in selected areas.

An in depth examination of many of the complex issues associated with planning and optimisation of intensity modulated radiotherapy treatment.

The importance of osteoporosis in the United Kingdom as a cause of death and disability is now well recognised.

Prior to the virtual atomic explosion of medical knowledge, at a time when communica- tion was very much slower, a medical book, to be authoritative and believable, had to be written by a very knowledgable, and, per force, usually quite senior person.

Legal action involving doctors, either as defendants or expert witnesses, has greatly increased over the past decade and few can now remain aloof from this aspect of their profession.

9th volume to be published in this successful series of re-vision / study aids, FRCR Part 1 is derived from thequestions used in the annual revision course held at TheRoyal London and St.

Material for this book was gathered in the early 1980's in Manchester, where a higher incidence than usual of complications in the gastro-intestinal and urinary tract was observed.