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| MRI: The Basics | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ray H Hashemi, William G Bradley, Christopher J Lisanti
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 212400
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 353
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0781741572
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.07548
EAN: 9780781741576
ASIN: 0781741572
Publication Date: September 1, 2004
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Product Description
Now in its updated Second Edition, this volume is an easy-to-read introduction to the physics behind MR imaging. The subject is presented in a clear, user-friendly, clinically relevant fashion, with large-size, legible equations, over 100 images of cases to illustrate the basic principles described in the text, and questions and answers that are ideal for board review. This edition has new images and up-to-date information on echo planar imaging, contrast enhanced MR angiography, diffusion tensor imaging, and using high-performance gradients. A new chapter provides a clinical approach to pulse sequences, to help readers assess the utility of newer sequences. The review section has additional questions.
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| Customer Reviews:
 student approved February 11, 2008
The book gives a nice summary of everything involved in MRI without being too brief or too in depth.
far fewer holes than Mitchell MRI February 1, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Though there are a lot of equations in this book, it is far more conceptual than the widely accepted Mitchell MRI book, and not as mathematically oriented as you would think at first glance. If you are starting out in MRI, read this book first and you'll have a good foundation for further learning. Mitchell's book, on the other hand, is too confusing for the first timer, and might cause you significant confusion when you move to other MR physics books because you are missing the fundamentals. Overall I highly recommend this book to any M.D. who wants to know fundamental MRI physics.
 Passable introductory book November 9, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
"MRI:the Basics" was my first introduction to MRI. It did get me into the field quickly. However, there are some major flaws in this book.The chapters on frequency/phase encoding is badly written. The basic mechanics is described in an imprecise way that it is misleading, if not completely wrong at some points. This leads to inconsistencies in many places, and makes the treatment of k-space unsatisfying. (That's pretty much all the major important topics in basic MRI!) I still recommend it to newbies. But always consult a more technical book (for example, Liang and Lauterbur) when in doubt.
It has the basics all alright... November 9, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My feeling about this book is mixed. It was my first introductory book to MRI, and it did get me into the field very quickly. However the chapter that describes frequency encoding and phase encoding is so badly written (the description is misleading, if not completely wrong at some points) that the treatment of k-space does not make sense. This makes the understanding of more advanced pulse sequences difficult, if not impossible without extra sources of information.Since there really isn't that many choices for a beginner, this is a passable book. Just remember that the signal processing part of the book is inconsistent and misleading. Always consult a more technical book (for example, Liang and Lauterbur) when in doubt.
User-freindly guide to the complexities of MRI May 24, 2000
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This 300 page paper back has 400 high quality and relevant illustrations (mainly diagrams and line drawings) that greatly help to illustrate some otherwise difficult-to-grasp concepts. The emphasis is on the how and why of magnetic resonance imaging, not on the interpretation of the images. The authors have successfully negotiated the narrow difference between a book that is filled with mind numbing details and one which is over simplified with a trivial approach. While not getting bogged down in minutia that are endlessly fascinating to physicists, but demoralizing to many physicians, they haven't avoided the concepts which form the basis of MRI such as, K-space, Fourier transform and pulse sequences. Nor have newer scanning techniques that involve tissue suppression and MRA been slighted. At the end of each chapter a succinct "Key Points" section emphasizes the most relevant features of the preceeding chapter. Also included at the end of each chapter is a self-assessment quiz (with answers at the end of the book). This book is excellent for MR technologists, radiology residents in board preparation and non-radiolgist physicians who want to get up-to-speed in this exciting and rapidly growing subdiscipline of diagnostic imaging. If this book were a movie, I would give it an enthusiastic, "Two Thumbs Up."
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