Preface...
Table of Contents...
Contributing Authors...
PART I: MRI BASICS
1. Introduction to MRI Physics
Gary Martinez
2. Basic Pulse Sequences in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Daniel Calle and Teresa Navarro
PART II: PERFUSION, DIFFUSION AND FUNCTIONAL MRI
3. Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI in Small Animals
Pilar López-Larrubia
4. Preclinical Arterial Spin Labeling Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow
Eric R. Muir
5. Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI
Jennifer Moroz and Stefan A. Reinsberg
6. Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Irene Guadilla, Daniel Calle, and Pilar López-Larrubia
7. Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
Silvia Lope-Piedrafita
8. Mapping Functional Connectivity in the Rodent Brain using Electric-Stimulation fMRI
Laura Pérez-Cervera, José María Caramés, Luis Miguel Fernández-Mollá, Andrea Moreno, Begoña Fernández, Elena Pérez-Montoyo, David Moratal, Santiago Canals, Jesús Pacheco-Torres
9. Functional Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Rita Maria Rocha Oliveira, Irene Guadilla, and Pilar López-Larrubia
PART III: IN VIVO SPECTROSCOPY
10. In Vivo 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
M. Carmen Muñoz-Hernández and María L. García-Martín
11. In Vivo Heteronuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Blanca Lizarbe, Antoine Cherix, and Rolf Gruetter
12. 1H Spectroscopic Imaging of the Rodent Brain
Rui V. Simöes, Emma Muñoz-Moreno, Raúl Tudela, and Guadalupe Soria
PART IV: SPECIAL MRI TECHNIQUES
13. Susceptibility Weighted MRI in Rodents at 9.4T
Ferdinand Schweser, Marilena Preda, and Robert Zivadinov
14. Biomedical 19F MRI Using Perfluorocarbons
Tuba Güden-Silber, Sebastian Temme, Christoph Jacoby, and Ulrich Flögel
15. Rodent Abdominal Adipose Tissue Imaging by MR
Bhanu Prakash KN, Jadegoud Yaligar, Sanjay K. Verma, Venkatesh Gopalan, Sendhil Velan S.
16. Cardiac MRI in Small Animals
Min-Chi Ku, Till Huelnhagen, Thoralf Niendorf, and Andreas Pohlmann
17. In Utero MRI in Mouse Embryos
Jiangyang Zhang, Dan Wu, and Daniel H. Turnbull
18. Oxygenation Imaging by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods
Heling Zhou, Nuria Arias-Ramos, Pilar López-Larrubia, Ralph P. Mason, Sebastián Cerdán, and Jesús Pacheco-Torres
19. Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mMRI)
Maxime Gauberti, Antoine Fournier, Denis Vivien, and Sara Martinez De Lizarrondo
PART V: MRI AND MRS IN ANIMAL MODELS OF DISEASE
20. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Studies of Mouse Models of Cancer
Menglin Cheng and Kristine Glunde
21. MRI in the Study of Animal Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Nyoman D. Kurniawan
22. MRI in the Study of Animal Models of Stroke
Pedro Ramos-Cabrer and Daniel Padro
PART VI: OTHER APPLICATIONS
23. Assessment of Blood Brain Barrier Leakage with Gadolinium Enhanced MRI
Min-Chi Ku, Sonia Waiczies, Thoralf Niendorf, and Andreas Pohlmann
24. In Vivo Pharmacokinetics of Magnetic Nanoparticles
Carlos Caro, M. Carmen Muñoz-Hernández, Manuel Pernia Leal, and María L. García-Martín
PART VII: ANESTHESIA AND ADVANCED CONTRAST AGENTS
25. Anaesthesia and Monitoring of Animals during MRI Studies
Jordi L. Tremoleda, Sven Macholl, and Jane K. Sobawoski
26. Advanced Contrast Agents for Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Based in Nanotechnology
Daniel Calle, Paloma Ballesteros, and Sebastián Cerdán
