"Established as the leading textbook on imaging diagnosis of brain and spine disorders, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine is now in its Fourth Edition. This thoroughly updated two-volume reference delivers cutting-edge information on nearly every aspect of clinical neuroradiology. Expert neuroradiologists, innovative renowned MRI physicists, and experienced leading clinical neurospecialists from all over the world show how to generate state-of-the-art images and define diagnoses from crucial clinical/pathologic MR imaging correlations for neurologic, neurosurgical, and psychiatric diseases spanning fetal CNS anomalies to disorders of the aging brain. Highlights of this edition include over 6,800 images of remarkable quality, more color images, and new information using advanced techniques, including perfusion and diffusion MRI and functional MRI."--Publisher's website.

Instrumentation: magnets, coils, and hardware -- Contrast development and manipulation in MR imaging -- Principles of image formation -- Fundamentals of flow and hemodynamics -- Fast imaging principles -- Artifacts in MR -- Disorders of brain development -- Central nervous system manifestations of the phakomatoses -- Epilepsy -- White matter diseases and inherited metabolic disorders -- Adult brain tumors -- Pediatric brain tumors -- Intracranial hemorrhage -- Intracranial vascular malformations and aneurysms -- Cerebral ischemia and infraction -- MR angiography: techniques and clinical applications -- Head trauma -- Inracranial infections -- Normal aging, dementia, and neurodegenerative disease -- The skull base -- The sella turcica and parasellar region -- Anatomy and diseases of the temporal bone -- Eye, orbit, and visual system -- Congenital anomalies of the spine and spinal cord: embryology and malformation -- Degenerative disease of the spine -- Neoplastic disease of the spine and spinal cord -- Spinal trauma -- Vascular disorders of the spine and spinal cord -- Spinal infection and inflammatory disorders -- MR imaging of fetal brain and spine -- Diffusion and diffusion tensor MR imaging: fundamentals -- Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging -- Clinical fMRI -- Psychiatric disease -- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the biochemical basis of neurological disease -- Contrast agents and relaxation effects.