J. Alex Becker (jabecker@mit.edu)
Neuroimaging Primer - Harvard Medical School lecture notes: Introduction to Neuroimaging
Java-based Atlas Navigator
Normal Brain:
NEW: Normal Anatomy in 3-D with MRI/PET
Atlas of normal structure and blood flow
Top 100 Brain Structures
Can you name these brain structures?
Normal aging: structure and function
Normal aging: structure and function
Normal aging: coronal plane
Vascular anatomy
Cerebrovascular Disease (stroke or "brain attack"):
NEW: Multiple embolic infarction, diffusion and FLAIR imaging
Acute stroke: speech arrest
Acute stroke: speaks nonsense words, "fluent aphasia" (time-lapse movies)
Acute stroke: writes, but cant read, "alexia without agraphia"
Subacute stroke: hesitating speech, "transcortical aphasia"
Subacute stroke: loss of sensation
Chronic subdural hematoma
Cavernous angioma
Arteriovenous malformation, with MRA
Vascular dementia
Acute stroke (MR diffusion imaging) with MRA: Carotid or Circle of Willis
Hypertensive encephalopathy
Multiple embolic infarctions
Hypertensive encephalopathy
Fatal stroke
Cerebral hemorrhage
Neoplastic Disease (brain tumor):
Glioma, TlTc-SPECT with a Tour
Glioma, FDG-PET
Glioma, FDG-PET
Glioma, TlTc-SPECT
Metastatic adenocarcinoma
Metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma
Meningioma
Sarcoma
Degenerative Disease:
NEW: Mild Alzheimers disease, FDG-PET and MRI
Alzheimers disease with a Tour
Alzheimers disease with functional MRI
Alzheimers disease
Huntingtons disease
Motor neuron disease
Cerebral calcinosis
Picks disease
Alzheimers disease, visual agnosia
Inflammatory or Infectious Disease:
Multiple sclerosis with a Tour (time-lapse movies)
Multiple sclerosis
AIDS dementia
Lyme encephalopathy
Herpes encephalitis with a Tour
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
Cerebral Toxoplasmosis