New Book: CT and MR Angiography

The Lane Library congratulates and thanks the authors for their new addition to the literature and our collection: CT and MR Angiography: Comprehensive Vascular Assessment by Dr. Geoffrey Rubin, Professor of Radiology and Chief of Cardiovascular Imaging, Stanford Medical School; co-edited with Neil Rofsky, Associate Professor of Radiology and Chief of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Bath Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

The 1330-page textbook represents the first comprehensive treatment of vascular anatomy and disease using volumetric imaging with computed tomography and magnetic resonance. Cardiovascular diseases represent the leading causes of death in the United States, Europe, and regions of Asia. Conventional angiography has played a dominant role in the diagnosis and characterization of these disorders, however even as the backbone for the evaluation of cardiovascular diseases it has many fundamental limitations. Innovations in hardware, software, and image analysis technology have placed CT and MR angiography at the forefront of clinical cardiovascular imaging. These "noninvasive" techniques are replacing conventional angiography, and are poised to serve as a new gold standard by providing equivalent or in many cases superior characterization of cardiovascular abnormalities.

This textbook represents the culmination of 15 years of experience in the development of these technologies and their applications, which in the case of CT angiography were largely developed here at Stanford University.

Posted on November 19, 2008 1:19 PM

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