Advanced Quantitative Imaging Of Knee Joint Repair

Jacket Description/Flap: Over the last two decades, there have been numerous exciting developments in the surgical field of articular cartilage repair. Magnetic resonance imaging plays a critical role in pre-operative surgical planning, through its ability to identify the extent and severity of cartilage lesions. It also plays an important role in post-operative management, by allowing surgeons to noninvasively monitor the morphological status of repaired cartilage tissue. This book covers recent advances in ultra high field MRI and biochemical MRI techniques such as T2 mapping, delayed gadolinium enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC), gagCEST and sodium MRI. It is written by a multidisciplinary team including basic scientists, radiologists, orthopaedic surgeons and biomedical engineers. The volume is an ideal reference guide for musculoskeletal radiologists, basic research scientists, orthopedic surgeons and biomedical engineers etc. Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Surgical Techniques for Knee Joint Repair / William Rossy, Carlos Uquillas, Eric J. Strauss -- 2. Morphological Imaging of Joint Repair / Edwin H. G. Oei, Stephen J. Matzat, Garry E. Gold -- 3. T2 Mapping of Knee Joint Repair / Ligong Wang, Eric J. Strauss, Orrin H. Sherman, Gregory Chang, Ravinder R. Regatte -- 4. MRI T1? Mapping of Knee Joint Repair / Pia M. Jungmann, Xiaojuan Li -- 5. dGEMRIC Mapping of Knee Joint Repair / Goetz H. Welsch, Friedrich F. Hennig, Andreas Mauerer, Siegfried Trattnig -- 6. Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) of Knee Joint Repair / Jose G. Raya, Gregory Chang -- 7. Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Contrast by Glycosaminoglycans and its Application for Monitoring Knee Joint Repair / Jae-Seung Lee, Ding Xia, Prodromes Parasoglou, Gregory Chang, Alexej Jerschow, Ravinder R. Regatte -- 8. Sodium Imaging of the Knee Joint Repair / Guillaume Madelin, Gregory Chang, Ravinder R. Regatte -- 9. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cartilage Repair with a Focus on Subchondral Bone / Gregory Chang, Guillaume Madelin, Ding Xia, Orrin Shennan, Eric Strauss, Laith Jazrawi, Ravinder R. Regatte -- 10. Application of Imaging to Knee Biomechanics and Reconstruction / Peter S Walker, Sally Arno -- 11. Tissue Engineering Approaches for Knee Joint Repair / Christopher M O'Brien, Joseph R O'Brien, Lijie Grace Zhang -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Over the last two decades, there have been numerous exciting developments in the surgical field of articular cartilage repair. Magnetic resonance imaging plays a critical role in pre-operative surgical planning, through its ability to identify the extent and severity of cartilage lesions. It also plays an important role in post-operative management, by allowing surgeons to noninvasively monitor the morphological status of repaired cartilage tissue. This book covers recent advances in ultra high field MRI and biochemical MRI techniques such as T2 mapping, delayed gadolinium enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC), gagCEST and sodium MRI. It is written by a multidisciplinary team including basic scientists, radiologists, orthopaedic surgeons and biomedical engineers. The volume is an ideal reference guide for musculoskeletal radiologists, basic research scientists, orthopedic surgeons and biomedical engineers etc.