Image Atlas of COVID-19

By Meiyun Wang and Georges El Fakhri

Image Atlas of COVID-19 covers this novel and emerging respiratory infectious disease. Although the gold standard for clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 remains the nucleic acid test for SARS-CoV-2, chest CT scans have been widely used in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 as simple and fast diagnostic methods. The latter has proven crucial when faced with a large volume of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. The imaging manifestations of COVID-19 have some specific characteristics, hence a better understanding of imaging findings is of great value for detecting lesions, evaluating lesion severity, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and assessment of therapeutic options and prognosis.

• Contains 61 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including a collection of over 400 DR, CT, PET/CT and PET/MRI scans in Henan Provincial People’s Hospital (HPPH)
• Organized into four chapters by clinical subtypes of COVID-19
• Details a large number of clinical images, with illustrations that are intended to demonstrate imaging findings of COVID-19 to serve as a reference manual for medical staff engaged in imaging and clinical work
• Ideal as a training material for academic education

• Language: English
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Release date: Sep 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9780443184925

Meiyun Wang

Professor Wang M.D., Ph.D serves as Board of Trustee (BoT) member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM),Certified Teacher in Clinical MRI of ISMRM and European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB), Vice-Chair of the Committee on Women in Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBME) and standing member of the Artificial Intelligence Committee in CSBME. Also, she is the President-Elect of the International Society for Neurovascular Disease (ISNVD) and Overseas Chinese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (OCSMRM), Vice-Chair of the Chinese Chapter of the ISMRM, and she has served on the Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC), the MR Value Initiative Committee, the Chapters Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Women in ISMRM, Secretary and Chair in 2021 of the Psychiatric MR Spectroscopy & Imaging Study Group of ISMRM. She has had two years’ postdoc in A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School from 2006 to 2008, and twenty-five years’ working experience in diagnostic MR imaging and MRI research. Her research has focused on exploring the value of multi-model imaging including CT, MRI, PET-CT, PET-MR, and MR-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) to improve diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Dr. Wang has published over 100 papers on journals such as JAMA, Molecular Psychiatry, Radiology and given over 300 invited lectures at international and national scientific and educational meetings. She is also the principal investigator on international cooperative grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program of China. Owing to her contributions to the field, she was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Contribution Award by the Overseas Chinese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (OCSMRM) and the Gold Medal of the Chinese Society of Radiology.

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Preface

The history of human development is a history of the fight against infectious diseases. In history, there have been dozens of infectious diseases that have endangered human beings, such as plague, smallpox, cholera, leprosy, diphtheria, influenza, syphilis, typhus, malaria, rabies, and tuberculosis. Among these diseases, plague, smallpox, and influenza have had the greatest impact. Since the beginning of the 21st century, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), avian influenza, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), and other epidemics have recurred frequently. In the past 2 years coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread to almost every country in the world, and the situation of humans fighting against infectious diseases is still