Singh K, Vaccaro AR. Pocket Atlas of Spine Surgery. 2nd ed. Thieme; 2018; 240 pp; 201 ill; $69.99 For those with a particular interest in spine imaging, this short (240 pages), softcover book illustrates in detail (with intraoperative photographs and a number
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors conducted a retrospective review of 58 patients with 62 MR imaging studies performed within 72 hours following endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. Patient demographics, aneurysm location, and vascular territory distribution of cortical and sulcal hyperintensity
Editor’s Choice Twenty-five patients with relapsing-remitting MS and 20 healthy volunteers were enrolled in a prospective study with a protocol including anatomic imaging, standard magnetization transfer, and inhomogeneous magnetization transfer imaging. Magnetization transfer and inhomogeneous magnetization transfer ratios measured in
Copel J. Obstetric Imaging: Fetal Diagnosis and Care. 2nd ed. Elsevier; 2017; 776 pp; $299.99 Obstetric Imaging: Fetal Diagnosis and Care, the second edition of the highly popular first text, is a comprehensive textbook on ultrasound imaging of the fetus. Since the first edition, which
Miss out on the March 2018 AJNR Tweet Chat? No worries, catch up on all the discussion. March 2018 Chat – Vessel Wall Imaging Hosted by Drs. Mahmud Mossa-Basha (@mossabas) & Waleed Brinjikji (@WBrinjikji). The discussion covered VW (vessel wall) MRI protocols
Brian C. Bowen, MD, PhD (1946–2018) It is with sadness that I am writing to inform the members of the ASNR of the death of our colleague Brian Bowen, MD, PhD. Brian grew up in Southern California and was graduated
Wen, P. Y., & Huse, J. T. (2017). 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Central Nervous System Tumors. Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.), 23(6, Neuro–oncology), 1531–1547. https://doi.org/10.1212/CON.0000000000000536 The 2016 WHO update introduces important changes to the classification of gliomas, the most common
Fellows’ Journal Club Ninety-three patients with World Health Organization grade II gliomas with known IDH-mutation and 1p/19q-codeletion status (18 IDH1 wild-type, 45 IDH1-mutant and no 1p/19q codeletion, 30 IDH-mutant and 1p/19q codeleted tumors) underwent DTI. ROIs were drawn on every section of the T2-weighted images
Editor’s Choice Fast macromolecular proton fraction mapping is a recent quantitative MR imaging method for myelin assessment. Macromolecular proton fraction and T2* maps were obtained from 12 healthy controls, 18 patients with relapsing-remitting MS, and 12 patients with secondary-progressive MS
Dumont AS, Lanzino G, Sheehan JP. Brain Arteriovenous Malformations and Arteriovenous Fistulas. Thieme; 2017; 296 pp; 152 ill; $169.99 In the world of cerebrovascular neurosurgery, few pathologies are as misunderstood as brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and dural arteriovenous fistulae (dAVFs). Significantly
