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Introduction to neuroimaging, diagnostic approach, smear technique and principles

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Atlas of Correlative Surgical Neuropathology and Imaging

Part of the book series: Current Histopathology ((CUHI,volume 24))

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The advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has had the same profound effect on medical and surgical neurology that computerized tomography (CT) had, when that modality first appeared. Compared with CT, however, MR images are both more detailed and more specific, whilst views in any axis are possible, the so-called multiplanar facility. That MRI has superseded CT in aspects of neurology is beyond doubt: yet CT continues to be a cost-effective investigation in many circumstances, and in most institutions the two modalities thrive side by side. Many patients, therefore, have undergone both types of imaging, and the diagnostic process oscillates between the terminologies of each. This assumption of parallel interpretation is made throughout the text.

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  1. Neuropathology Unit Department of Anatomical Pathology, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    G. Stuart Rutherfoord (Head, Senior Lecturer)

  2. University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

    G. Stuart Rutherfoord (Head, Senior Lecturer) & R. H. Hewlett (Consultant Neuropathologist, Senior Lecturer)

  3. MRI Unit, City Park Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    R. H. Hewlett (Consultant Neuropathologist, Senior Lecturer)

  4. Department of Radiology(Neuroimaging), Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    R. H. Hewlett (Consultant Neuropathologist, Senior Lecturer)

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Rutherfoord, G.S., Hewlett, R.H. (1994). Introduction to neuroimaging, diagnostic approach, smear technique and principles. In: Atlas of Correlative Surgical Neuropathology and Imaging. Current Histopathology, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1434-9_1

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