CT- and MR-Guided Interventions in Radiology

Abstract

There has been an increasing interest in and need for CT- and MR-guided nonvascular applications in Interventional Radiology in the past few years. The rapid development, progress and clinical demand in this fi eld explain that 3 years after the publication of the fi rst successful edition in 2009, the current authors – Andreas Mahnken from my former department at Aachen University, Jens Ricke from Magdeburg University and Kai E. Wilhelm from Bonn University – present an attractive second edition which has been revised, updated and enlarged by including new data and new aspects. CT- and MR-guided interventions belong to the very few still Radiology-dominated fi elds, and thus, interventional radiologists should continue to play an eminent role there without neglecting ultrasonography as a competing as well as an adjunctive modality. A book like this helps propagating the ideas of nonvascular interventions and serves as a textbook as well as a source of valuable information and guidance for our daily practice. It covers a comprehensive spectrum of CT- and MR-guided nonvascular interventions with a special focus on Interventional Oncology and re fl ects the high expertise of the authors involved. I am sure that the second edition, too, will be a most valuable clinical companion in a rapidly developing and most promising part of Interventional Radiology.