Functional MRI: Basic Principles and Emerging Clinical Applications for Anesthesiology and the Neurological Sciences

Functional MRI: Basic Principles and Emerging Clinical Applications provides an overview of the basic principles of fMRI for clinicians with minimal knowledge of the imaging technique and its research potential and clinical applications. The text is divided into two parts, with Section I covering the primary signal measured in fMRI (BOLD), the correlation between neuronal activity and the BOLD signal, and how the data is analyzed and interpreted in fMRI. Section II explores applications of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience and common psychiatric disorders, surgical planning in neurosurgery, anesthesia and the intensive care unit, and more. Timely and highly accessible, this book is a valuable resource for researchers and clinicians interested in understanding what fMRI is, how it works, and its applications.

Dr. Ramani is a Neuroanesthesiologist with more than 35 years of experience as an academic anesthesiologist. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Florida in Gainesville.