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MRI from Picture to Proton

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Anyone who has tried to teach MR to non-physicists is used to two dilemas.
How do you keep a student interested while you lay the "necessary groundwork" to explain MRI ?
How do you give craft an intuitive explanation without oversimplifications that can be hard to explain away later?
These authors find a way. They present MR in the way we experience it, starting with the questions everyone faces first about images, contrast resolutionm, and using those questions to guide a path to the mechanisms of image production, signal generation and manipulation.
The easy flowing style underlines the skill and credibility of the authors, while side boxes offer historical perspectives and deeper treatment of key topics.
IMHO, This the perfect first text, and a great desk reference for all MR users.

This book is excellent for people who have clinical experience and would like to delve more deeply into the physical world of MRI. The explanations are simple, yet still effective without obscuring the underlying physics. Basic relationships between fundamental quantities that govern image formation/quality are also made clear. However, this book is not for advanced MR students looking for theoretical formulations.