This open access book offers an essential overview of musculoskeletal system imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological developments including artificial intelligence. Written by leading international experts and teachers, the chapters are disease-oriented and cover all relevant imaging modalities, with a focus on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.
IDKD books are rewritten (not merely updated) every four years, which means they offer a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in imaging. The book is clearly structured and features learning objectives, abstracts, subheadings, tables and take-home points, supported by design elements to help readers navigate the text.
It will particularly appeal to general radiologists, radiology residents, and interventional radiologists who want to update their diagnostic expertise, as well as clinicians from other specialties who are interested in imaging for their patient care.
Juerg Hodler held the positions of Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland between 2010 to his retirement in 2022. He also served as the Chief Medical Officer of the University Hospital in Zurich between 2011 and 2022. He has published 268 original papers, 64 other publications including review articles, 28 book chapters and four books, mostly in the field of musculoskeletal imaging, with an emphasis on joint imaging and the spine. He has served as a co-editor of the journal of Skeletal Radiology for nearly a decade. He has been actively involved in a number of committees of scientific societies, including the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), the International Skeletal Society (ISS) the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the Swiss Society of Radiology (SGR-SSR). He has served as the President of the ISS from 2022 to 2024. He has been the President of the Swiss Board's Examination in Radiology for 11 years. He has served as a Co-Director of the International Diagnostic Course in Davos since 2005.
Rahel A. Kubik-Huch is Director of the Institute of Radiology and the Department of Medical Services and a Member of the Executive Board at the Kantonsspital Baden in Switzerland, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH. She is a member of the Hospital council of the University Hospital Zurich and a titular professor at the University of Zurich. Prof. Kubik-Huch has a strong interest in female imaging with expertise in all imaging modalities and image-guided minimal invasive breast interventions. She was a longstanding Deputy Editor of European Radiology and a past President and Honorary Member of the executive board of the Swiss Society of Radiology. Since 2014, she is a course Co-Director of the International Diagnostic Course Davos (IDKD). Prof. Kubik-Huch is a member of the Female Imaging Working Group, a fellow of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR), and acts as a scientific advisor to the MIBB Working Group of the Swiss Society for Senology. She has published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to several book chapters and has been an invited speaker in her area of expertise at a number of national and international symposia and conferences.
Justus E. Roos is the Director of the Department of Radiology at the University Teaching and Research Hospital Lucerne (LUKS) in Switzerland since 2015. Before assuming this position he held professorships at both Stanford and Duke Universities, with a current scientific association with Universities of Zurich and Lucerne. Dr. Roos is involved in students teaching associated with the Medical Master program in Lucerne which also includes innovative teaching methods such as a simulation program for liver biopsy. His research activities have consistently concentrated on chest and cardiovascular imaging. CT was the most important imaging method during his scientific career. However, he has also published in MR imaging and used advanced methods such as Xenon-ventilation MR and artificial intelligence. He is an experienced user of teleradiology, serving several regional hospitals in Switzerland. He has been a teacher at IDKD for several years, using innovative teaching methods with great success. Since 2022 he is a Director at IDKD and responsible for the new online version of IDKD, as well as for the chest and cardiovascular courses in Davos as well as abroad.
