Editor’s Choice The authors evaluated 37 journal articles that included 985 patients with MS who had MR imaging in which T1-weighted postcontrast sequences were compared with noncontrast sequences obtained during the same MR imaging examination by using ROI analysis of
Spetzler RF, Kalani MYS, Nakaji P, Yagmurlu K. Color Atlas of Brainstem Surgery. Thieme; 2017; 416 pp; 850 ill; $249.99 This recent publication is a unique work that emphasizes the structural and functional anatomy of the thalamus and brainstem and provides
Rabinstein AA. Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2017;23(1, Cerebrovascular Disease):62-81. doi:10.1212/CON.0000000000000420. This is an excellent and comprehensive review of current acute stroke treatment. The three main principles of acute stroke care are: (1) achieve timely recanalization of the occluded
AJNR Senior Editor Dr. Jody Tanabe recently accepted a new assignment as Acting Chair at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and has ended her term after 3½ years of dedicated service to the Journal. Her role overseeing functional
Fellows’ Journal Club Forty healthy subjects underwent T2WI, DTI, magnetization transfer, and T2*WI at 3T in <35 minutes using standard hardware and pulse sequences. Cross-sectional area, fractional anisotropy, magnetization transfer ratio, and T2*WI WM/GM signal intensity ratio were calculated. Reliable
Editor’s Choice Eighteen healthy right-handed volunteers were prospectively evaluated with resting-state fMRI and task-based fMRI to assess language networks. The laterality indices of Broca and Wernicke areas were calculated by using task-based fMRI via a voxel-value approach. The authors performed
Necmettin Pamir M, Al-Mefty O, Borba LAB. Chordomas: Technologies, Techniques and Treatment Strategies. Thieme; 2017; 256 pp; 400 ill; $199.99 When I was asked to review this book, I was a bit apprehensive. I questioned the rationale of reviewing an entire
Valdueza JM, Schreiber SJ, Roehl J-E, Connolly F, Klingebiel R. Neurosonology and Neuroimaging of Stroke: A Comprehensive Reference. 2nd ed. Thieme; 2017; 768 pp; 1305 ill; $224.99 Neurosonology and Neuroimaging of Stroke, written by 4 neurologists and 1 neuroradiologist, is an
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors report their experience treating basilar apex aneurysms with flow-diverter stents and evaluate their efficacy and safety profile in this specific condition. Of the 175 aneurysms treated with flow-diverter stents at their institution, 5 patients received
Editor’s Choice The authors performed a prospective multireader, multicase noninferiority trial of 1526 images read by 7 blinded neuroradiologists with prospectively acquired synthetic and conventional brain MR imaging case-control pairs from 109 subjects with neuroimaging indications. Each case included conventional
