Few advances in MR imaging have had the impact degenerative neurologic disorders, white matter d- that dif usion-weighted (DW) imaging has had in the eases, toxic/metabolic disorders, and tumors. As one evaluation of brain. From the time of the early de- can easily see from the table of contents, the authors scriptions by LeBihan and colleagues of the ability have systematically covered all major areas of neu- to image and measure the micromovement of water radiology. T is will allow cross-referencing to pr- molecules in the brain to the present time, dif usion lematic cases which one may encounter. Additionally, imaging and its derivatives have made an impact in knowledge of what represents a normal adult brain the evaluation of multiple disease processes, primar- and a normal developing brain along with an exp- ily in ischemia, but also in other conditions of the nation of artifacts seen in DW imaging makes this a brain. In most medical centers dif usion imaging is valuable book. It is noteworthy that the authors have no longer considered a sequence to be used in spe- chosen to abundantly illustrate the clinical material, cial circumstances, but rather it is employed as part drawing on pathologic correlations in a number of of routine MR imaging of the brain. Because the in- areas.
About the Author:

Toshio Moritani MD, PhD is a Professor of Radiology, and serves as the Director of Clinical Neuroradiology Research at the University of Michigan. He received his medical degree and doctoral degree at Showa University in Tokyo, Japan. He worked at the Showa University Hospital in Tokyo and Saitama Children's Medical Center, Saitama. He came to the USA to work for the Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester as a Research Assistant Professor in 1999, then he joined the University of Iowa as a clinical faculty member in 2004. After working for the University of Iowa as a Clinical Professor, he joined the faculty of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan in 2017. Dr. Moritani is Associate Editor in Neurographics. He has received more than 70 awards at National and International meetings. He has been awarded Honored Educator from the Radiological Society of North America, and Editor's Recognition Award from RadioGraphics, and Krabbenhoft Award for Excellence in Teaching from University of Iowa. He has published over 150 papers, written 26 book chapters, and presented over 400 scientific or educational presentations at National and International conferences, and more than 70 invited lectures.

Dr. Capizzano is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neuroradiology at the University of Michigan, who specializes in brain imaging. He has over 20 years of experience in clinical Neuroradiology as well as research experience in brain MRI applied to neurological diseases. Dr. Capizzano did his Radiology residency in his native Buenos Aires, Argentina. Later, he trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Michael Weiner's group at UCSF, where he researched applications of MR spectroscopy in dementia and epilepsy. Before moving to Michigan, he worked at the University of Iowa for 13 years. He published over 50 peer reviewed articles on Neuroradiology, mostly on clinical and methodological applications of MRI and MRS in Neurology and Psychiatry with emphasis on the pathology of the limbic lobe.