Diagnostic Fundamentals of Brain Imaging

Fundamentals of optical imaging.

Optical imaging techniques offer simplistic while highly sensitive modalities for molecular imaging research. In this chapter, the major instrumental necessities for microscopic and whole-animal imaging techniques are introduced. Subsequently, the resulting imaging modalities using visible or near-infrared light are presented and discussed. The aim is to show the current capabilities and applic...

Iranian Brain Imaging Database: A Neuropsychiatric Database of Healthy Brain

Introduction: The Iranian Brain Imaging Database (IBID) was initiated in 2017, with 5 major goals: provide researchers easy access to a neuroimaging database, provide normative quantitative measures of the brain for clinical research purposes, study the aging profile of the brain, examine the association of brain structure and function, and join the ENIGMA consortium. Many prestigious databases...

Brain Tumors Diagnostic by Tumor Imaging Agents

X-ray imaging: Fundamentals and planar imaging

X-ray imaging is the most widespread and well-known medical imaging technique. It dates back to the discovery by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895 of a new kind of penetrating radiation coming from an evacuated glass bulb with positive and negative electrodes. Today, this radiation is known as short wavelength electromagnetic waves being called X-rays in the English speaking countries, but “Roengt...

Fundamentals and applications of magnetic particle imaging.

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a new medical imaging technique which performs a direct measurement of magnetic nanoparticles, also known as superparamagnetic iron oxide. MPI can acquire quantitative images of the local distribution of the magnetic material with high spatial and temporal resolution. Its sensitivity is well above that of other methods used for the detection and quantification...