Jay J. Pillai
Editor

2014

The motivation for writing this book was the perceived need on the part of my neuroradiology trainees and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, as well as on the part of some of my neurosurgical and neuro-oncology colleagues, for a comprehensive but concise overview of current state-of the-art clinical functional/ physiologic imaging of brain tumors. Although innumerable research applications have been developed over the last couple of decades in the areas of blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), magnetic source imaging/ magnetoencephalography (MEG/MSI), MR perfusion imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), no single book has been published to date that describes the clinical applications of all of these modalities as they relate specifically to brain tumor imaging.