Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis
Editors: Saba, L., Sanches, J.M., Pedro, L.M., Suri, J.S. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Presents a new dimension of understanding Atherosclerosis in 2D and 3D
- Presents work on plaque stress analysis in order to provide a general framework of computational modeling with Atherosclerosis plaques
- Focuses on patient specific material property characterization by using in-vivo MRI data
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Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the world, resulting mostly from the sudden ruptures of atherosclerosis carotid plaques. Understanding why and how plaque develops and ruptures requires a multi-disciplinary approach such as radiology, biomedical engineering, medical physics, software engineering, hardware engineering, pathological and histological imaging. Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging, Diagnosis and Treatment presents a new dimension of understanding Atherosclerosis in 2D and 3D. This book presents work on plaque stress analysis in order to provide a general framework of computational modeling with atherosclerosis plaques. New algorithms based on 3D and 4D Ultrasound are presented to assess the atherosclerotic disease as well as very recent advances in plaque multimodality image fusion analysis.
The goal of Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging, Diagnosis and Treatment is to fuse information obtained from different 3D medical image modalities, such as 3D US, CT and MRI, providing the medical doctor with some sort of augmented reality information about the atherosclerotic plaque in order to improve the accuracy of the diagnosis. Analysis of the plaque dynamics along the cardiac cycle is also a valuable indicator for plaque instability assessment and therefore for risk stratification. 4D Ultrasound, a sequence of 3D reconstructions of the region of interest along the time, can be used for this dynamic analysis. Multimodality Image Fusion is a very appealing approach because it puts together the best characteristics of each modality, such as, the high temporal resolution of US and the high spatial resolutions of MRI and CT.
- Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Imaging Occlusive Atherosclerosis
Pages 3-12
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Histopathology of Atherosclerosis Progression: What Imagers Need to Know
Pages 15-24
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Clinical MRA of the Carotid Arteries
Pages 25-35
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Quantitative MR Analysis for the Assessment of Carotid Atherosclerosis
Pages 37-64
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Contrast Agents in Carotid Angiography with Magnetic Resonance
Pages 65-71
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Multi-Modality Atherosclerosis Imaging and Diagnosis
- Editors
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- Luca Saba
- João Miguel Sanches
- Luís Mendes Pedro
- Jasjit S. Suri
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4614-7425-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4614-7425-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4614-7424-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-4289-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 422
- Number of Illustrations
- 122 b/w illustrations, 208 illustrations in colour
- Topics
