MRI: The Basics-4판

Concise, readable, and engaging, MRI: The Basics, 4th Edition , offers an excellent introduction to the physics 
behind MR imaging. Clinically relevant coverage includes everything from basic principles and key math concepts to more 
advanced topics, including the latest MR techniques and optimum image creation. Hundreds of high-quality illustrations, 
board-style questions and answers, legible equations, and instructive diagrams take you from the basics of MR physics 
through current applications.

Feautures:
◦Contains all-new chapters on general MR safety and contrast safety, as well as a new chapter on motion correction.

◦Addresses timely topics such as susceptibility-weighted imaging (including other potential uses beyond hemorrhage 
 detection), Restriction Spectrum Imaging (RSI), MR elastography, and MR relaxometry.

◦Provides 100 new board-style questions in a separate chapter, as well as problem-solving and multiple choice questions 
 in each chapter.

◦Includes key points at the end of each chapter for quick reference and review.

◦Ideal for radiologists, radiology residents and fellows, and radiologic technologists, as well as other professionals 
 who encounter MRI in their practice, and those preparing for exams.

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Part I: Basic Concepts

1 Introductory Math
2 Basic Principles of MRI
3 Radio Frequency Pulse
4 T1, T2, and T2*
5 TR, TE, and Tissue Contrast
6 Tissue Contrast: Some Clinical Applications
7 Pulse Sequences: Part I (Saturation, Partial Saturation, Inversion Recovery)
8 Pulse Sequences: Part II (Spin Echo)
9 Fourier Transform
10 Image Construction: Part I (Slice Selection)
11 Image Construction: Part II (Spatial Encoding)
12 Signal Processing
13 Data Space
14 Pulse Sequence Diagram
15 Field of View
16 k-Space: The Final Frontier!
17 Scan Parameters and Image Optimization
18 Artifacts in MRI

Part II: Fast Scanning

19 Fast Spin Echo
20 Gradient Echo: Part I (Basic Principles)
21 Gradient Echo: Part II (Fast Scanning Techniques)
22 Echo Planar Imaging
23 Scanning Features
24 Parallel Imaging (by Mark Bydder, PhD)
25 Tissue Suppression Techniques
26 Flow Phenomena
27 MR Angiography (contributions by Jiang Du, PhD)
28 Cardiac MRI
29 MR Spectroscopy in the Brain
30 High-Performance Gradients
31 The Many Combinations of MRI

Part III: Advanced Scan Techniques
32 Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging
33 MR Elastography
34 MR Relaxometry (T1 and T2/T2* Times)
35 Motion Correction
36 Restriction Spectrum Imaging (RSI)
Part IV: MR Safety
37 General MR Safety (by Christopher Walker, MD)
38 Contrast Safety

Part V: Boards-Style Questions

39 100 Questions and Answers

Appendix A: Chapter Answers
Appendix B: Abbreviations
Appendix C: Suggested Readings
Appendix D: Bibliography
Index