Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Written by acknowledged experts in the field, this textbook provides an interdisciplinary survey of the principles, instrumentation, imaging techniques, and contrast mechanisms of magnetic resonance imaging. It draws on knowledge form physics, biochemistry, and medicine and treats the fundamental issues without compromising scientific rigor. Besides offering a thorough, non-threatening treatment of physics and imaging methodology, the book devotes much attention to such critical issues as image contrast and its controlling factors, blood flow effects, and the use of contrast media. The clinical chapters are written by leading radiologists and cover the most importnat current applications in the brain, body, and musculoskeletal systems. These chapters contain extensive discussions of imaging protocols enhanced by many previously unpublished illustrations.