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Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Mathematical Foundations and Applications

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This book was written by a mathematician, who made every simple concept in MRI hard to understand and complicated. Too many irrelevent or unnecessary mathematical concepts and terminologies were introduced to MRI, without any explanation. The worst, the author is short of the basic knowledges of MRI. For instance, there is only one technical drawing about the one of the most important concepts in MRI, the pulse sequence, in the whole book (Fig.17 of page 99). Unfortunately, this pulse sequence is completely wrong. This is the first time in my career of 15 years as MRI physicist to have a chance to see that phase-encoding gradient is placed after 180 degree pulse in a practical spin-echo sequence. Obviously, this mistake was not caused by negligence or misprint. The worst student in my class will not make such a mistake. This book is useless to MRI physicist, chemist, engineer or any one who wants to learn or deepen his/her knowledge of MRI. I am curious about the fact that an experienced author, who is short of the basic understanding of his topic, has enough courages to publish a book. Is this a glory or a pity to him?

I have no idea whether or not this book is any good or not, but the comment by the previous reviewer about the position of the phase encoding gradient relative to the 180 degree pulse is wrong (it can be either before or after and there are advantages to having it placed after) so please do not let his opinion sway your decision. I have no affiliation with the author, and have been active in MRI research for about 10 years.

I am giving 5 starts to counter-balance the unfair rating of 1 star given by the first reviewer.
It is not a bad book at all. Not for chemists wanting to learn MRI. However for a mathematical perspective of MRI, this book is quite refreshing. Its main drawback is the lack of practical applications, however, this was not the intent of the book. Therefore it deserves a better rating.