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1. The World Health Organization Classification of the Central Nervous System Tumors: An Update Using Imaging
Shiori Amemiya

2. Brain Tumor Imaging: European Association of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines
Thierry Vander Borght, Susanne Asenbaum, Peter Bartenstein, Christer Halldin, Özlem Kapucu, Koen Laere, Andrea Varrone, Klaus Tatsch

3. Assessment of Heterogeneity in Malignant Brain Tumors
Timothy E. Meter, Gary Tye, Catherine Dumur, William C. Broaddus

4. Diagnosing and Grading of Brain Tumors: Immunohistochemistry
Hidehiro Takei, Suzanne Z. Powell

5. Malignant Brain Tumors: Roles of Aquaporins
Jérôme Badaut, Jean-François Brunet

6. Brain Metastases: Gene Amplification Using Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis
Carmen Franco-Hernandez, Miguel Torres-Martin, Victor Martinez-Glez, Carolina Peña-Granero, Javier S. Castresana, Cacilda Casartelli, Juan A. Rey

7. Cyclic AMP Phosphodiesterase-4 in Brain Tumor Biology: Immunochemical Analysis
B. Mark Woerner, Joshua B. Rubin

8. Radiosurgical Treatment of Progressive Malignant Brain Tumors
Cole A. Giller

9. Anti-vascular Therapy for Brain Tumors
Florence M. Hofman, Thomas C. Chen

10. Glial Brain Tumors: Antiangiogenic Therapy
William P. J. Leenders, Pieter Wesseling

11. Brain Tumors: Amide Proton Transfer Imaging
Jinyuan Zhou, Jaishri O. Blakeley

12. Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Rat Models of Invasive Brain Tumors
Sungheon Kim, Steve Pickup, Harish Poptani

13. Brain Tumors: Diffusion Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Pia C. Sundgren, Yue Cao, Thomas L. Chenevert

14. Brain Tumors: Planning and Monitoring Therapy with Positron Emission Tomography
D. J. Coope, K. Herholz, P. Price

15. Clinical Evaluation of Primary Brain Tumor: O-(2-[18F]Fluorethyl)-L-Tyrosine Positron Emission Tomography
Matthias Weckesser, Karl-Josef Langen

16. Combined Use of [F-18]Fluorodeoxyglucose and [C-11]Methionine in 45 PET-Guided Stereotactic Brain Biopsies
Benoit Pirotte

17. Hemorrhagic Brain Neoplasm – 99mTc-Methoxyisobutyl Isonitrile-Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
Filippo F. Angileri, Fabio Minutoli, Domenico Torre, Sergio Baldari

18. Brain Tumor Imaging Using p-[123I]Iodo-L-Phenylalanine and SPECT
Dirk Hellwig

19. Diagnosis and Staging of Brain Tumours: Magnetic Resonance Single Voxel Spectra
Margarida Julià-Sapé, Carles Majós, Carles Arús

20. Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Acquisition and Reconstruction: Application to Functional and Spectroscopic Imaging in Human Brain
Fa-Hsuan Lin, Shang-Yueh Tsai

21. Intra-axial Brain Tumors: Diagnostic Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Elias R. Melhem, Riyadh N. Alokaili

22. Brain Tumors: Apparent Diffusion Coefficient at Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Fumiyuki Yamasaki, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Kaoru Kurisu

23. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Tumors Using Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
Matthew A. Hunt, Edward A. Neuwelt

24. Metastatic Solitary Malignant Brain Tumor: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Nail Bulakbasi, Murat Kocaoglu

25. Brain Tumor Resection: Intra-operative Ultrasound Imaging
Christof Renner

26. Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas: Salvage Treatment
Michele Reni, Elena Mazza, Andrés J. M. Ferreri

27. Central Nervous System Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors: Role of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Receptor
Michael A. Grotzer, Tarek Shalaby, Alexandre Arcaro

28. Central Nervous System Rosai–Dorfman Disease
Osama Raslan, Leena M. Ketonen, Gregory N. Fuller, Dawid Schellingerhout

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