Quantitative MRI of the Brain

Contributors.
Reviewers.
Foreward.
Introduction.
SECTION A: THE MEASUREMENT PROCESS.
1. Concepts: Measurement and MR (Paul S. Tofts).
2. The Measurement Process: MR Data Collection and ImageAnalysis (Paul S. Tofts).
3. QA: Quality Assurance, Accuracy, Precision and Phantoms (PaulS. Tofts).
SECTION B: WINDOWS INTO THE BRAIN; MEASURING MR PARAMETERS.
4. PD: Proton Density of Tissue Water (Paul Tofts).
5. T1: the Longitudinal Relaxation Time (Penny A.Gowland and Valerie L. Stevenson).
6. T2: the Transverse Relaxation Time (Philip A.Boulby and Fergus J. Rugg-Gunn).
7. D: the Diffusion of Water (Claudia A.M. Wheeler-Kingshott,Gareth J. Barker, Stefan C.A. Steens and Mark A. van Buchem).
8. MT: Magnetisation Transfer (Paul S. Tofts, Stefan C.A. Steensand Mark A. van Buchem).
9. Spectroscopy: ¯1H Metabolite Concentrations (PaulS. Tofts and Adam D. Waldman).
10. T1-w DCE-MRI:T1-weighted Dynamic Contrast-enhance d MRI (GeoffJ.M. Parker and Anwar Padhani).
11. T2- and T2*-w DCE-MRI:Blood Perfusion and Volume Estimation using Bolus Tracking (RichardP. Kennan and H. Rolf Ja¨ger).
12. Functional MRI (Peter Jezzard and Nick F. Ramsay).
13. ASL: Blood Perfusion Measurements using Arterial SpinLabelling (Laura M. Parkes, John A. Detre).
SECTION C: THE BIOLOGY.
14. Biology: The Significance of MR Parameters in MultipleSclerosis (Bruno Brochet, Klaus G. Petry and Vincent Dousset).
SECTION D: ANALYSING IMAGES.
15. Spatial Registration of Images (John Ashburner and CatrionaD. Good).
16. Volume and Atrophy (Geoff J.M. Parker and Declan T.Chard).
17. Shape and Texture (William R. Crum).
18. Histograms: Measuring Subtle Diffuse Disease (Paul S. Tofts,Gerard R. Davies and Jamshid Dehmeshki ).
SECTION E: WHERE ARE WE GOING?
19. The Future of qMRI: Conclusions and Speculation (Paul S.Tofts).
Appendix 1: Greek Alphabet for Scientific Use.
Index.