Mukherji SK, ed. Rovira À, consulting ed. Neuroimaging Clinics of North America: Advances in Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis. Elsevier; 2017;27(2):195–370; $365.00

MRI is often performed for a suspicion of multiple sclerosis or for follow-up in patients known to have MS. Enter the May 2017 volume of the Neuroimaging Clinics of North America, entitled Advances in Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis. This issue, edited by Dr. Àlex Rovira, consists of 12 chapters with 29 authors contributing to these chapters. Not only does this volume cover adult and pediatric brain and spine MS, but it contains an update on all of the new concepts in MR imaging, such as iron mapping, detecting cortical lesions, MR spectroscopy, PET imaging, and the detection of microstructural changes with ultra-high-field (7T) MR.

The volume also serves as a strong review of NMO spectrum disorders, which is immediately applicable to one’s daily work. The subdivision of NMO (or NMOSD, as it is now referred to) into seropositive/seronegative types bears study, as do the images contained in this chapter. The clinical necessity to distinguish NMOSD from MS because of treatment variations is pointed out in this chapter.

Of great additional interest is the chapter on monitoring treatment responses in MS because, as the authors point out, there should be a consistent, reproducible protocol so that therapeutic measures can be accurately assessed. This pertains not only to volumes of WM lesions and their enhancement, but also to associated brain atrophy (which is covered in a subsequent chapter).

This issue of the Neuroimaging Clinics of North America is one that should be available to all neuroradiologists and is a recommended purchase for one’s own personal library.