Quantification of Biophysical Parameters in Medical Imaging

1. Introduction: Medical Imaging for the Quantitative Measurement of Biophysical Parameters
Ingolf Sack, Tobias Schaeffter

Part I. Biological and Physical Fundamentals

2. The Fundamentals of Transport in Living Tissues Quantified by Medical Imaging Technologies
Sebastian Hirsch, Tobias Schaeffter, Ingolf Sack

3. Mathematical Modeling of Blood Flow in the Cardiovascular System
Alfonso Caiazzo, Irene E. Vignon-Clementel

4. A Biphasic Poroelasticity Model for Soft Tissue
Sebastian Hirsch

5. Physical Properties of Single Cells and Collective Behavior
Hans Kubitschke, Erik W. Morawetz, Josef A. Käs, Jörg Schnauß

6. The Extracellular Matrix as a Target for Biophysical and Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Angela Ariza de Schellenberger, Judith Bergs, Ingolf Sack, Matthias Taupitz

Part II. Medical Imaging Technologies

7. Mathematical Methods in Medical Image Processing
Gitta Kutyniok, Jackie Ma, Maximilian März

8. Acceleration Strategies for Data Sampling in MRI
Christoph Kolbitsch, Tobias Schaeffter

9. 4D Flow MRI
Sebastian Schmitter, Susanne Schnell

10. CEST MRI
Martin Kunth, Leif Schröder

11. Innovative PET and SPECT Tracers
Ulrich Abram

12. Methods and Approaches in Ultrasound Elastography
Heiko Tzschätzsch

13. Photoacoustic Imaging: Principles and Applications
Jan Laufer

14. Fundamentals of X-Ray Computed Tomography: Acquisition and Reconstruction
Marc Dewey, Marc Kachelrieß

Part III. Applications

15. Quantification of Myocardial Effective Transverse Relaxation Time with Magnetic Resonance at 7.0 Tesla for a Better Understanding of Myocardial (Patho)physiology
Till Huelnhagen, Teresa Serradas-Duarte, Fabian Hezel, Katharina Paul, Thoralf Niendorf

16. Extracellular Matrix-Specific Molecular MR Imaging Probes for the Assessment of Aortic Aneurysms
Julia Brangsch, Carolin Reimann, Marcus R. Makowski

17. Diffusion-Based MRI: Imaging Basics and Clinical Applications
Michael Scheel

18. Quantification of Functional Heterogeneities in Tumors by PET Imaging
Winfried Brenner, Florian Wedel, Janet F. Eary

19. Tumor Characterization by Ultrasound Elastography and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
Thomas Fischer, Anke Thomas, Dirk-André Clevert

20. Sensitivity of Tissue Shear Stiffness to Pressure and Perfusion in Health and Disease
Jing Guo, Florian Dittmann, Jürgen Braun

21. Radionuclide Imaging of Cerebral Blood Flow
Ralph Buchert

22. Cardiac Perfusion MRI
Amedeo Chiribiri

23. Myocardial Perfusion Assessment by 3D and 4D Computed Tomography
Marc Dewey, Marc Kachelrieß

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Imaging / Radiology, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics