Muscle Imaging in Health and Disease [Paperback]

This comprehensive, meticulously illustrated volume effectively demonstrates the role of CT, MRI, MRS, ultrasonography, conventional radiography and nuclear medicine in evaluating the integrity and quality of skeletal muscle. Besides reviewing all imaging modalities, the book presents the complete spectrum of muscle physiology and pathophysiology - both normal and diseased. Highly-detailed illustrations highlight the in-depth survey of clinically significant muscle abnormalities. Radiologists will especially value the unique reference atlas of MR images of normal skeletal muscle. By incorporating exercise and MRI, advantage is made of the natural contrast between active and inactive muscle to remarkably enhance the definition of individual muscle anatomy. Certain to become an essential reference.A comprehensive text-reference of imaging skeletal muscle. This book is distinguished by its presentation of all available modalities: x-ray, CT ultrasound, and MRI. This is an area of vital importance to neurologists and orthopaedists as well as radiologists.Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Contributors.- I Radiology Techniques.- 1. Ionizing Radiation Imaging Techniques in the Evaluation of Muscle Disorders.- 2. Muscle Ultrasound.- 3. Basic Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- II Human Muscular Anatomy.- 4. MRI of the Trunk and Spine.- 5. MRI of the Upper Extremity.- 6. MRI of the Lower Extremity.- III Muscle Physiology and Pathophysiology.- 7. Diagnostic Imaging of Skeletal Muscle Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology.- 8. 1H-MRS of Muscle Physiology and Pathophysiology.- 9. 31P-MRS of Muscle Physiology.- 10. 31P-MRS of Muscle Pathophysiology.- IV Neuromuscular Disease.- 11. Classification of Neuromuscular Diseases.- 12. Histopathological Basis of Muscle Imaging.- 13. Spinal Muscular Atrophy.- 14. Neuropathies and Motor Neuron Diseases.- 15. Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction.- 16. Muscular Dystrophies.- 17. Myotonie Disorders.- 18. Congenital Myopathies.- 19. InhelC