Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis Brain Cancer

This eighth volume in the series Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis discusses in detail the classification of the CNS tumors as well as brain tumor imaging. Scientists and Clinicians have contributed state of the art chapters on their res

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Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis Volume 8

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Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis Volume 8

Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis Brain Cancer Edited by

M.A. Hayat Distinguished Professor Department of Biological Sciences, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA

Editor M.A. Hayat Distinguished Professor Department of Biological Sciences Kean University Union, NJ, USA

ISBN 978-90-481-8664-8

e-ISBN 978-90-481-8665-5

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Contributors

Riyadh N. Alokaili Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Dulles 2, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

Susanna Asenbaum Nuclear Medicine Division, Mont-Godinne Medical Centre, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Dr. G. Therasse 1, 5530, Yvoir, Belgium

Shiori Amemiya Department of Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-KuTokyo, 113-8655, Japan

Jerome Badaut Neurovascular Laboratory, Departments of Clinical and fundamental Neurosciences, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Filippo F. Angileri Clinica Neurochirurgica, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico G. Martino, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy

Sergio Baldari Clinica Neurochirurgica, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico G. Martino, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy

Alexandre Arcaro Neuro-Oncology Program, University Children’s Hospital of Zürich Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland

Peter Bartenstein Nuclear Medicine Division, Mont-Godinne Medical Centre, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Dr. G. Therasse 1, 5530, Yvoir, Belgium

Carles Arus Grup d’Aplicacions Biomèdiques de la RMN (GABRMN), Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Jaishri O. Blakeley Division of MR Research, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 217 Taylor Building, 720 Rutland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

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William C. Broaddus Neuro-Oncology Laboratories, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Box 980631, 411 North