High Field Brain MRI

Part I. Techniques and Semeiotics

1. High-Field MRI and Safety: I. Installations
Alberto Maiorana, Alessandra Iannelli

2. High-Field MRI and Safety: II. Utilization
Alberto Maiorana, Alessandra Iannelli

3. 3.0 T MRI Diagnostic Features: Comparison with Lower Magnetic Fields
Tommaso Scarabino, Giuseppe Maria Giannatempo, Saverio Pollice, Michelangelo Nasuto, Rosario Francesco Balzano, Teresa Popolizio

4. Standard 3.0 T MR Imaging
Tommaso Scarabino, Antonella Bacci, Giuseppe Maria Giannatempo, Saverio Pollice, Michelangelo Nasuto, Annamaria Pennelli, Raffaele Agati, Teresa Popolizio

5. 3.0 T MR Angiography
Tommaso Scarabino, Saverio Pollice, Giuseppe Maria Giannatempo, Michelangelo Nasuto, Rosario Francesco Balzano, Teresa Popolizio

6. 3.0 T MR Spectroscopy
Michela Tosetti, Timo Schirmer, Valentina D’Alesio, Alfonzo Costanzo, Tommaso Scarabino, Teresa Popolizio, Rosario Francesco Balzano, Marco Perri

7. 3.0 T Diffusion Studies
Armando Tartaro, Antonio Ferretti, Simone Salice, Piero Chiacchiaretta

8. Nerve Pathways with MR Tractography
Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Andrea Cherubini, Carlo Cosentino, Francesco Amato, Tommaso Scarabino, Umberto Sabatini

9. 3.0 T Perfusion MRI Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast and Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Techniques
Giuseppe Maria Giannatempo, Tommaso Scarabino, Teresa Popolizio, Tullio Parracino, Ettore Serricchio, Annalisa Simeone

10. ASL 3.0 T Perfusion Studies
Piero Chiacchiaretta, Armando Tartaro, Simone Salice, Antonio Ferretti

11. Functional MRI at 3.0 Tesla
Daniela Cevolani, Raffaele Agati, Francesco Salle, Marco Leonardi

12. 3.0 T Brain MRI: A Pictorial Overview of the Most Interesting Sequences
Teresa Popolizio, Francesca Chio, Rosario Francesco Balzano, Tommaso Scarabino

13. Setting the Report and Support of the Functional Findings
Armando Tartaro, Simone Salice

Part II. Applications

14. High-Field Neuroimaging in Traumatic Brain Injury and Disorders of Consciousness
Chiara Falletta Caravasso, Francesco Pasquale, Rita Formisano, Umberto Sabatini

15. 3.0 T Imaging of Ischemic Stroke
Teresa Popolizio, Giuseppe Guglielmi, Annalisa Simeone, Giuseppe Maria Giannatempo, Marco Perri, Rosario Francesco Balzano, Tommaso Scarabino

16. High-Field-Strength MRI (3.0 T or More) in White Matter Diseases
Maria Assunta Rocca, Simonetta Gerevini, Massimo Filippi, Andrea Falini

17. High-Field Neuroimaging in Parkinson’s Disease
Andrea Cherubini, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Patrice Péran, Umberto Sabatini

18. High-Field 3 T Imaging of Alzheimer’s Disease
Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Andrea Cherubini, Tommaso Scarabino, Umberto Sabatini

19. 3.0T Imaging of Brain Gliomas
Antonella Bacci, Gianluca Marucci, Caterina Budai, Federico Sacchetti, Raffaele Agati

20. 3.0 Tesla of Advanced Neuroimaging of CNS Infection: A Pictorial Essay
Simone Salice, Piero Chiacchiaretta, Antonio Ferretti, Armando Tartaro

21. Use of fMRI Activation Paradigms: A Presurgical Tool for Mapping Brain Function
Daniela Cevolani, Raffaele Agati, Marco Leonardi

22. 3.0 T fMRI in Psychiatry
Linda Antonella Antonucci, Alessandro Bertolino, Giuseppe Blasi

23. 7 T MR: From Basic Research to Human Applications
Laura Biagi, Mirco Cosottini, Michela Tosetti

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Neuroradiology, Neurology