Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become one of the most powerful diagnostic tools in modern medicine, with a number of well-known advantages in terms of image quality, functional imaging options, and patient safety. The idea of using this enormous pot
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Series Editors Maximilian F. Reiser Hedvig Hricak Michael Knauth
Editorial Board Andy Adam, London Fred Avni, Brussels Richard L. Baron, Chicago Carlo Bartolozzi, Pisa George S. Bisset, Durham A. Mark Davies, Birmingham William P. Dillon, San Francisco D. David Dershaw, New York Sam Sanjiv Gambhir, Stanford Nicolas Grenier, Bordeaux Gertraud Heinz-Peer, Vienna Robert Hermans, Leuven Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Heidelberg Theresa McLoud, Boston Konstantin Nikolaou, Munich Caroline Reinhold, Montreal Donald Resnick, San Diego Rüdiger Schulz-Wendtland, Erlangen Stephen Solomon, New York Richard D. White, Columbus
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Thomas Kahn • Harald Busse Editors
Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Foreword by Maximilian F. Reiser
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Editors Thomas Kahn Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Leipzig University Hospital Leipzig Germany
Harald Busse Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Leipzig University Hospital Leipzig Germany
ISSN 0942-5373 ISBN 978-3-642-20705-1 ISBN 978-3-642-20706-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20706-8
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Foreword
Recently, imaging has experienced major changes in paradigms. For a long time imaging was only used for morphological analysis and described as visual impression. More and more functional as well as metabolic parameters are used in order to provide objective information and to enable biological characterization of the normal and pathological tissue. At the end, this is expected to provide information about the specific situation in a particular patient allowing for adequate treatment in the sense of personalized medicine. Moreover, images are more and more used for therapeutic issues. For image guided therapy
