Author | Valk, Jaap. author |
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Title | Magnetic Resonance in Dementia [electronic resource] / by Jaap Valk, Frederik Barkhof, Philip Scheltens |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56269-3 |
Descript | X, 353 p. online resource |
Introduction. Brain atrophy and normal aging -- MR applications in dementia. MR techniques. Image processing -- Neurodegenerative disorders. Alzheimer's disease. Dementia with Lewy bodies. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Dementia with Parkinsonism. Huntington's dementia. Progressive subcortical gliosis. Prion-linked dementias -- Disorders primarily affecting white matter. Viral infections leading to dementia. Inflammatory disorders. Inborn errors of metabolism. Toxic-allergic encephalopathies. Dementia after trauma, irradiation, chemotherapy and infection -- Vascular dementias. Commonly used criteria for vascular dementia. Vascular dementia: MR features of subgroups. Vascular dementias with characteristic clinical course, familial story, pathophysiology and MR pattern. Systemic disorders and cerebrovascular disease. Vasculitis -- Miscellaneous forms of dementia. Normal pressure hydrocephalus and dementia. Intra- and extra-axial tumors and dementia. Idiopathic calcinosis of Fahr