As neuroimaging plays an increasingly vital role in medical practice, mastering its fundamentals is essential for all healthcare professionals. Structured in a highly accessible, case-based format, this comprehensive, easy-to-follow book reviews basic neuroimaging features every medical trainee needs to know.
Focusing on image pattern recognition, the book utilizes paradigmatic images to illustrate crucial features for the most common clinical scenarios encountered in clinical practice.
To ensure immediate clinical relevance, each chapter is optimized for rapid learning: a focused theoretical introduction seamlessly transitions into practical, real-world case examples. These examples walk you through basic image interpretation, differential diagnosis, and the critical link between imaging and pathophysiology.
An indispensable reference for medical students, radiology trainees, and non-radiology physicians, this book provides the foundational knowledge required to sharpen your diagnostic expertise confidently.

Sofia Reimão, MD, PhD, is a Full Professor, Vice-Dean and Director of Radiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). She is also a Hospital Attendant in Neuroradiology at Santa Maria University Hospital in Lisbon. 
Professor Reimão completed her medical training at Nova Medical School in Lisbon. She received a master’s degree in Philosophy at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Portuguese Catholic University, and a Ph.D. in Medicine from FMUL on "MR Imaging of the Substantia Nigra in Parkinson's Disease." 
She is an investigator and coordinator of the Pharmaco MRI Unit - Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics of FMUL. Her research currently focuses on neurodegenerative diseases imaging, especially movement disorders. 
 
João Madureira, MD, is a Neuroradiologist at Santa Maria University Hospital in Lisbon and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. His clinical and academic work focuses on neurovascular diseases, with a particular interest in diagnostic neuroradiology and endovascular treatment of vascular pathology of the central nervous system.

Filipa Proença, MD, completed her medical training at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL).
She is a specialist in Neuroradiology at Santa Maria University Hospital in Lisbon and a Professor of Radiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL). 
She is an investigator, and her research and work currently focus on diagnostic neuroradiology, mainly pediatric neuroradiology. 

David Berhanu, MD, PhD, is a specialist in Neuroradiology and a Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine. He also works at the Clinical Academic Centre of Lisbon and is the Head of Neuroradiology at the Lisbon Multiple Sclerosis Centre (CRIEM).  
He completed his medical training at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and holds a PhD in Neuroimaging from the University of Lisbon. He has a postgraduate degree in Clinical Research from Harvard Medical School and a postgraduate degree in MRI physics and quantitative analysis from the University of Oxford. 
David Berhanu teaches Neuroanatomy at the School of Medicine, and his research focuses on optic nerve imaging, intracranial hypertension, multiple sclerosis, and neuroinflammatory diseases.