Imaging Gliomas After Treatment

Tommaso Scarabino is currently director of the radiology department at the local health public company "ASL BAT" located in Andria (BT), Italy. He previously worked at the "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy, where he was director of the Neuroradiology Unit and mainly dealt with advanced imaging techniques in CT and MRI. He has led numerous scientific studies in the neuroradiological field making use (among the first in Europe) of a 3 tesla MRI scanner. He is the author of dozens of publications in the neuroradiological field in national and international journals, and has developed particular expertise in the study of brain tumors with advanced MR techniques such as diffusion, perfusion, spectroscopy and cortical activation. He is also the author of several textbooks, with a particular focus on post-treatment MR imaging. Currently, his primary focus is on refining advanced neuroradiological imaging techniques. Saverio Pollice completed his fellowship in radiology at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Novara (Italy) in November 2007. Since January 2008 he has been working at the radiology unit of the "l. Bonomo" hospital ASL BAT Andria, Italy. His work mainly concerns MRI neuroradiological imaging, with a particular focus on brain tumor studies using advanced techniques. Over the years he has developed considerable expertise in vascular imaging with ultrasound, and in cardiology imaging with computed tomography. He is the author of several publications in the neuroradiological field, has edited or co-edited several books on radiology, and has participated as a speaker at dozens of conferences.

Part. A Introduction.- Brain Tumors.- Part B Treatment of Gliomas.- Surgery.- Radiation therapy.- Chemotherapy.- Future developments.- Part C Post Treatment Neuroradiologic Imaging.- Magnetic Resonance Techniques.- Post-surgical MR morfologic imaging.- Post-radiation therapy morfologic MR imaging.- Post Chemotherapy morfologic MR imaging.- PET Imaging.- Advanced MR imaging.- Part D Clinical cases.