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This richly illustrated case-based atlas thoroughly depicts the role of MR imaging in the assessment of patients presenting with pain due to degenerative disease of the spine and will serve as an excellent guide to differential diagnosis. Importantly, generic radicular compression is the main reason for the painful symptomatology in only a limited number of cases, and this book illustrates and emphasizes how various anatomic elements of the spine can be responsible. The imaging features of a range of disorders involving both the anterior and posterior elements of the spine are described, including active inflammatory osteochondrosis, atypical herniated discs, facet joint disorders, spondylolysis, and degenerative-inflammatory changes of the spinal ligaments and posterior perispinal muscles. Each example is supported by clinical data, and a series of unusual cases are also presented. MR study protocols include T2-weighted sequences with fat saturation and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted sequences with fat saturation to allow better visualization or highlighting of various inflammatory changes in the spine. Radiologists, neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons, orthopedists, and rehabilitation physicians will all find this atlas a valuable asset in their practice.

This book provides a description of designing and developing a computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) system based on thermography for diagnosing some of the common ailments such as arthritis, diabetes, and fever. It introduces applications of machine and deep learning methods, and convolutional neural networks in the development of CAD system.

"Master the latest imaging procedures and technologies in nuclear medicine! Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging: Technology and Techniques, 9th Edition provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art information on all aspects of nuclear medicine. Coverage of body systems includes anatomy and physiology, along with details on how to perform and interpret related diagnostic procedures. The leading technologies -- SPECT, PET, CT, MRI, and PET/CT -- are presented with an emphasis on radiation safety and patient care." --

The only curative treatment currently available for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is surgical pulmonary endoarterectomy (PEA). However, several patients may have high risk factors for surgery, or a peripheral disease not amenable to surgical treatment; or else a residual pulmonary hypertension after PEA. Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) was recently developed to offer an alternative treatment for these patients. Extensive data has since confirmed the efficacy and relative safety of this procedure. However, there are several technical issues that have yet to be resolved. In addition, many cardiologists and pneumologists still know very little about the procedure itself and its potential.Exploring the clinical indications and technical aspects of BPA, this book offers a valuable reference guide for all those who would like to introduce or improve a BPA program, and for all those whose work involves treating this complex patient population.

Diagnostic Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Applications with Deep Learning Methods presents comprehensive research on both medical imaging and medical signals analysis. The book discusses classification, segmentation, detection, tracking and retrieval applications of non-invasive methods such as EEG, ECG, EMG, MRI, fMRI, CT and X-RAY, amongst others. These image and signal modalities include real challenges that are the main themes that medical imaging and medical signal processing researchers focus on today. The book also emphasizes removing noise and specifying dataset key properties, with each chapter containing details of one of the medical imaging or medical signal modalities. Focusing on solving real medical problems using new deep learning and CNN approaches, this book will appeal to research scholars, graduate students, faculty members, R&D engineers, and biomedical engineers who want to learn how medical signals and images play an important role in the early diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Biophotonic diagnostics/biomedical spectroscopy can revolutionise the medical environment by providing a responsive and objective diagnostic environment. This book aims to explain the fundamentals of the physical techniques used combined with the particular requirements of analysing medical/clinical samples as a resource for any interested party. In addition, it will show the potential of this field for the future of medical science and act as a driver for translation across many different biological problems/questions.

Mediante la ecografía podemos diagnosticar toda una pléyade de patologías que afectan a la gestante, simplemente utilizando los ultrasonidos como método de estudio. Los obstetras no siempre trabajamos en un medio ideal, ni tenemos a mano alguien con quién evacuar una consulta y desarrollamos nuestra labor es sitios muy dispares, muchas veces con recursos muy limitados y, sin otra posibilidad de diagnóstico que no sea un simple ecógrafo. Sé muy bien, lo que es la soledad, la noche y la distancia de un sitio apartado y sentirse como decía el cuento: sólo, como gaucho en el campo, en la noche y con una caja de fósforos vacía. La obra está estructurada siguiendo un patrón clásico de enfoque clínico por aparatos, utilizando la ecografía como medio para la valoración y seguimiento clínico de la mujer embarazada y su patología y, que normalmente nunca encontramos en ningún libro de obstetricia.Manuel Sánchez Seiz

Dieses Buch dient der Standortbestimmung der verschiedenen Verfahren, die durch ausgewiesene Experten der verschiedenen Fachgebiete aktuell und in übersichtlicher Form dargestellt werden. Dabei folgt einem Kapitel der interventionellen Kardiologie jeweils ein entsprechendes Kapitel der interventionellen Angiologie bzw. Radiologie, wodurch die enge Verwandtschaft, aber auch die Unterschiede leicht erkennbar werden.Ziel der Herausgeber ist es, zum einen die interdisziplinäre Diskussion anzuregen und zum anderen die Kenntnisse außerhalb des eigenen Bereiches bei gleicher Indikation zu vertiefen. Entsprechend wendet sich das Buch gleichermaßen an die interventionell tätigen Kollegen der unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen wie auch an den Allgemeinmediziner oder Internisten, der die Weichen für eine erfolgreiche Weiterbehandlung seines Patienten stellen muss.

Chest sonography is an established procedure in the stepwise imaging diagnosis of pulmonary and pleural disease. It is the method of choice to distinguish between solid and liquid lesions and allows the investigator to make an unequivocal diagnosis without exposing the patient to costly and stressful procedures. This book presents the state of the art in chest investigation by means of ultrasonography. A number of excellent illustrations and the compact text provide concise and easy-to-assimilate information about the diagnostic procedure. Basic elements such as indications, investigation techniques and image artifacts are detailed in separate chapters.