Rationale for Quantitative MRI of the Human Spinal Cord and Clinical Applications -- Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases -- Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Acute Spinal Cord Injury and Prognosis -- Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Chronic Spinal Cord Injury and Recovery -- Array Coils -- Bo Inhomogeneity and Shimming -- Susceptibility Artifacts -- Ultra-High Field Spinal Cord Imaging -- Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Spinal Cord -- Q-Space Imaging -- Advanced Methods to Study White Matter Microstructure -- Magnetization Transfer -- T₂ Relaxation -- Atrophy -- Spinal Cord fMRI -- Physiological Noise Modeling and Analysis for Spinal Cord fMRI -- Mapping the Vasculature of the Spinal Cord --Single Voxel MR Spectroscopy in the Spinal Cord: Technical Challenges and Clinical Applications -- Annex: Anatomy of the Spinal Cord
Summary
Quantitative MRI of the Spinal Cord is the first book focused on quantitative MRI techniques with specific application to the human spinal cord. Most existing books on spinal cord MRI are intended for radiologists and focus on qualitative rather than quantitative techniques used in clinical routine, such as T1/T2/PD-weighted MRI. This work instead includes coverage of diffusion-weighted imaging, magnetization transfer imaging, relaxometry, functional MRI, and spectroscopy. Although these methods have been successfully used in the brain for the past 20 years, their application in the
