Clinical Aims of Psychoradiology

In the past 2 decades, radiological imaging techniques have rapidly evolved to become powerful tools in studying the human brain in both healthy and diseased conditions. For psychiatry, this is particularly true with the advances of MR imaging), where the development of the multi-modal MR imaging has allowed quantification of brain tissue at the structural, functional, and molecular levels. While early experience using brain scans in psychiatry with traditional visual image inspection failed to establish meaningful benefit to patient care, improved and novel image acquisition strategies and semi-automated quantitative image analysis approaches have established the clinical relevance of brain imaging studies of psychiatric patients.

Source: Neuroimaging Clinics - November 10, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Qiyong Gong Tags: Preface Source Type: research