Multimodal Inner Ear Imaging in Vestibular Disorders

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few decades, inner ear imaging has advanced substantially and can now provide crucial insights into the pathophysiology of vestibular disorders. Be it high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computer tomography (CT) for structural assessment of inner ear structures, delayed contrast-enhanced MRI for imaging of the endolymphatic space, functional methods such as fMRI or functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for vestibulocochlear nerve integrity assessment, or other methods, multimodal inner ear imaging has many usage scenarios for clinical diagnosis and vestibular research.

This Special Issue therefore aims to collect high-quality original papers or reviews on novel imaging approaches and their clinical or scientific application in vestibular disorders, for example, in Menière’s disease (MD) or vestibular migraine (VM). We welcome research on various imaging modalities, technical papers, and new analysis methods. We furthermore invite authors to use state-of-the-art neuroimaging approaches in their data processing, i.e., not solely relying on radiological visual assessment of imaging data but also performing quantitative analyses.

The scope of this Special Issue includes the following topics:

• Novel imaging-based biomarkers of vestibular disorders;
• Usage of vestibular imaging in the clinical differentiation of vestibular disorders;
• Basic imaging-based research on the vestibular system;
• New analysis methods of vestibular imaging data.

Dr. Johannes Gerb
Dr. Rainer Boegle
Guest Editors

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