State of the Art Brain Tumor Diagnostics, Imaging, and Therapeutics, an Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics

Volume 20-3

von Meng Law

Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This Neuroimaging publication presents information in three distinct sections: Diagnostics, Planning/Imaging, and Therapeutics. Topics include State of the Art Pathology (New tools, New WHO classification/implications); Applications of nanotechnology in the imaging and therapy of brain tumors; Molecular Tools (Biology, Prognosis and Therapeutic Triage in Gliomas); Surgical planning and intra-operative MR in brain tumor surgery; Imaging of brain tumors via DTI and fMRI; Imaging of brain tumors via MR Spectroscopy and Metabolic Imaging; Imaging of brain tumors: Perfusion Permeability; Novel Gadolinium liposomal contrast agents; Current status and future potential of MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery; Update on surgically based clinical trials in brain tumors including new neurosurgical techniques; Novel medical therapeutics in brain tumors, including targeted molecular therapies, current and future clinical trials; and Radiation oncology in brain tumors, current approaches and clinical trials in progress.

• Themen: Medizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Krankheiten und Störungen Onkologie
• ISBN: 9781437718386
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2010
• Größe: 257 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences