Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders

Diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases can prove particularly intimidating to clinicians, because many times the diagnosis cannot be critically "confirmed" by a simple test. New imaging modalities have advanced to the point of high resolution, morphological, metabolic and functional analysis. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine and molecular imaging have recently emerged as outstanding non-invasive techniques for the study of the neurodegenerative disorders. __Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders__ Diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases can prove particularly intimidating to clinicians, because many times the diagnosis cannot be critically "confirmed" by a simple test. New imaging modalities have advanced to the point of high resolution, morphological, metabolic and functional analysis. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine and molecular imaging have recently emerged as outstanding non-invasive techniques for the study of the neurodegenerative disorders. Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders covers all the imaging techniques and new exciting methods like new tracers, biomarker, metabolomic and gene-array profiling, potential for applying such techniques clinically, and offers present and future applications as applied to the neurodegenerative disorders with the most world renowned scientists in these fields. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers, clinicians, and trainees in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and radiology. This resource covers all the imaging techniques associated with investigations and diagnoses in neurology for neurodegenerative disorders, as well as new methods such as new tracers, biomarker, gene-array profiling, & the potential for applying such techniques clinically. As new imaging modalities have recently emerged as outstanding non-invasive techniques for the study of the neurodegenerative disorders, the resource discusses high resolution, morphological, metabolic and functional analysis, as well as computed tomography, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine and molecular imaging This book summarizes the latest developments in imaging techniques and other new diagnostic methods as applied to the neurodegenerative disorders.