Quantitative MRI of the brain : measuring changes caused by disease

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 Image Analysis (Paul S. Tofts).3. QA: Quality Assurance, Accuracy, Precision and Phantoms (Paul S. 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. Steens and Mark A. van Buchem).9. Spectroscopy: 1H Metabolite Concentrations (Paul S. Tofts and Adam D. Waldman).10. T1-w DCE-MRI: T1-weighted Dynamic Contrast-enhance d MRI (Geoff J.M. Parker and Anwar Padhani).11. T2- and T2-w DCE-MRI: Blood Perfusion and Volume Estimation using Bolus Tracking (Richard P. Kennan and H. Rolf Ja ger).12. Functional MRI (Peter Jezzard and Nick F. Ramsay).13. ASL: Blood Perfusion Measurements using Arterial Spin Labelling (Laura M. Parkes, John A. Detre).Section C: The Biology.14. Biology: The Significance of MR Parameters in Multiple Sclerosis (Bruno Brochet, Klaus G. Petry and Vincent Dousset).Section D: Analysing Images.15. Spatial Registration of Images (John Ashburner and Catriona D. 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.