Biophysics of Brain Imaging

Modeling Observations and Microscopic Phenomena

Jorge Riera

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040350478
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Biological Sciences

This book takes a multiscale overview and theoretical framework for all existing brain imaging modalities. It also presents technological development for data fusion and underlying biophysical models. The book also provides problems and exercises useful for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Biophysics of Brain Imaging is broken up into 3 parts. Part 1: Modeling Observations and Microscopic Phenomena provides the physical and physiological foundation of all brain imaging modalities. Part 2 (Edited): Measuring and Modeling Emergent Mesoscopic Phenomena examines recording techniques and biophysical models used today to represent the mesoscale of the brain, the voxel. Part 3: Hypothesis Testing and Applications discusses methods to analyze brain imaging data and their applications to evaluate signatures in a variety of diseases, e.g., epilepsy, AD, and migraine.

This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate level students in Computational Neuroscience, Medical Imaging, Electrophysiology, and Brain Data Analysis and Modeling courses.

Figure slides are available to adopting professors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 NMR-Based Techniques
• 2 Large-Scale Electrophysiological Techniques
• 3 Transmission-Emission Imaging Modalities
• 4 Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)
• 5 The Neurons in Equilibrium
• 6 Neuronal Excitability
• 7 Inter-Neuronal Communication
• 8 Astrocyte Physiology
• 9 Astrocyte Functional Roles
• 10 The Vascular Response
• Appendix A: Introduction to Vector Calculus
• Appendix B: The Green Identities
• Appendix C: Magnetic LF – Isotropic Piecewise Homogeneous Conductor
• Appendix D: The Spherical Harmonics
• Index