Cartilage Imaging: Significance, Techniques, and New Developments

ISBN-13: 9781441984371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 245 str.

Thomas M. Link

Opis

This authoritative book provides state-of-the-art practices and new developments in the imaging of cartilage, associated pathologies, and repair procedures. With a main focus on MRI, major advances in cartilage imaging are put into clinical context relevant for radiologists, rheumatologists, and orthopedic surgeons. International experts provide their insights on cartilage pathologies associated with such conditions as osteoarthritis, osteochondral trauma, and cartilage repair.Morphological MRI techniques are outlined, including new sequences and high field imaging. Molecular imaging techniques able to characterize the biochemical composition of the cartilage matrix are discussed, such as T2 relaxation time, T1rho, and dGEMRIC methods.The first book of its kind, Cartilage Imaging: Significance, Techniques, and New Developments encompasses the full scope of knowledge in this rapidly evolving field. Identifying key techniques for characterizing disease processes as well as objectively and quantitatively evaluating the results of therapy, this outstanding resource is of benefit to all physicians interested in assessing cartilage disease and repair."

Spis treści

1. Anatomy and Histology of Cartilage
by Andrew Horvai, MD, PhD

2. Clinical aspects: A Rheumatologist’s Perspective
by David Hunter, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

3. Clinical aspects: An Orthopedic Surgeon’s Perspective
by Sunny Cheung, MD and C. Benjamin Ma, MD

4. Conventional Radiography as an Indirect Measure for Cartilage Pathology
by Daichi Hayashi, MD, Jeffrey Duryea PhD, Frank W. Roemer, MD, and Ali Guermazi, MD

5. Value of CT Arthrography in the Assessment of Cartilage Pathology
by Patrick Omoumi, MD, Paolo Simoni, MD, Bruno C. Vande Berg, MD, PhD, Frédéric E. Lecouvet, MD, PhD

6. MRI of Cartilage: Standard Techniques
by Thomas M. Link, MD

7. MRI of Cartilage: Pathological Findings
by Thomas M. Link, MD

8.  Scoring Systems to Semi-quantitatively Grade Cartilage Pathology with MRI
by Christoph Stehling, MD

9. Atlas: Cartilage Abnormalities and Scores
by Hans Liebl, MD and Thomas M. Link, MD

10. Cartilage Segmentation
by Julio Carballido-Gamio, PhD and Thomas M. Link, MD

11. Quantitative MR Imaging of Cartilage Morphology in Osteoarthritis
by Felix Eckstein, MD, PhD, Martin Hudelmaier, MD, and Wolfgang Wirth, PhD

12. MR T2 relaxation time measurements
by Thomas Baum, MD, Thomas M. Link, MD and Bernard J. Dardzinski, PhD

13. MR T1ρ Relaxation Time Quantification in Cartilage
by Xiaojuan Li, PhD

14. Cartilage Matrix Assessment: dGEMRIC
by Martha L. Gray, PhD, and Deborah Burstein, PhD

15. Imaging of Cartilage Repair
by Goetz H. Welsch, MD, Stephan E. Domayer, MD, Vladimir Juras, PhD, Tallal C. Mamisch, MD, and Siegried Trattnig, MD

16. Cartilage as a Biomarker
by Thomas M. Link, MD    

17. Frontiers in Molecular Imaging of Cartilage - Future Developments
by Ravinder Reddy, PhD, Arijitt Borthakur, PhD, Walter R.T. Witschey, PhD and J. Bruce Kneeland, MD

18. Future Perspective and Significance of Cartilage Imaging and Quantification
by Thomas M. Link, MD, and Sharmila Majumdar, PhD