MRS of the Brain and Neurological Disorders illustrates and demonstrates the usefulness of magnetic resonance spectroscopy for the diagnosis of brain and neurological disorders, including epilepsy, nervous disorders, psychiatric disorders, and brain tumors.
The book is unique in that it contains 87 case studies of neurologic and psychiatric disorders accumulated by clinical application of 31P chemical shift imaging and 1H single voxel spectroscopy, using a single MRS system. The extensive case studies, selected from 1,200 patients, include cases of brain tumors, cerebral infarction, cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM), Moya Moya disease, cerebral hemorrhage, dementia, neurologic disorders, epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, mania, and alcoholism. Highly illustrated, the book also covers a short history of MRS, explains basic principles of MRS, and summarizes a biochemical study for understanding the 31P and 1H spectra.
While several MRS studies have been conducted by researchers worldwide, no previous book has collected as many case studies. Indeed, with its in-depth examination of the subject matter, MRS of the Brain and Neurological Disorders will play a major role in the progress of in-vivo investigation of neurologic and psychiatric disorders by MRS.
This book provides an excellent and comprehensive overview of the classification literature...contains a considerable amount of new material...all chapters of this book are a pleasure to read...While the Preface states that the book's material have been used by honours students, in reality it can be used by statisticians and nonstatisticians alike. Indeed, anyone who has to deal with large multivariate sets of data will benefit...In all, this volume is a valuable and welcome addition to the literature.
- Short Book Reviews of the ISI, April 2000
A statistician embarking on a classification analysis of a set of data is presented with a bewildering array of choices...Having read this book, he or she will have an even wider methodological palette from which to choose. However, they should be better able to make informed choices.
-The Statistician, Volume 49, Part 3 (2000)
One of the attractive features of the book is that it illustrates the ideas by application to a variety of real data sets.
Biometrics, Vol. 56, No. 3, September 2000
...this book presents both a solid basis for understanding its content and an adequate synthesis of the current state of the discipline.
-IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Auly/August/2002
