Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals, 1e [Hardcover]

Lorrie L. Kelley (Author), Connie Petersen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0815186657 | ISBN-13: 978-0815186656 | Publication Date: December 1, 1996 | Edition: 1st

This one-of-a-kind book is unique in its side-by-side presentation of actual, high-quality diagnostic CT and MR scans and detailed line drawings of anatomy. Its concise and clearly written text is closely correlated to more than 800 images and line drawings, providing a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand sectional anatomy resource. The practitioners to relate and apply what they learn to the clinical setting.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 303 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 1st edition (December 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815186657
• ISBN-13: 978-0815186656
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,035,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Guide for taking CT and MRI advanced certification, July 22, 2000

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Michelle L McGrenery, RT(R.M.CT.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals, 1e (Hardcover)

I'm an MRI/CT technologist, and have borrowed this book to study for the CT test. As an imaging professional, this was the most helpful of all the books geared towards cross sectional anatomy. I am now buying it in preparation for the MRI test, because it helped me so much the last time. The pictures are clear, the notes are to the point, and everything is shown in an orderly and easy to read manner. CT and MRI images are equally focused on, and the graphics are clear as to what they're indicating, unlike many other anatomy books. I highly recommend this book.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sectional Anatomy and loving it, October 8, 2001

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Debra Kendall (Plano, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals, 1e (Hardcover)

I am a professional speaker in cross sectional anatomy. I have used this book and the accompanying slides for years and I highly recommend it particularly if you need a review of anatomy. The images are clear and well labelled with very few ambiguities. There is also a smaller pocket study book available. Need to learn x-sectional anatomy? Get this book.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Caused more frustration than anything, October 28, 2006

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Daniel Mullen (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals, 1e (Hardcover)

This was the required text for my Sectional Anatomy course, as part of my radiography curriculum. I found the layout of the book disorganized and frustrating. I felt it would have been helpful and appropriate for the text to address the sequencing of CT/MRI images instead of showing a random shot here or there...I suppose that's difficult to do without a multimedia/interactive presentation, but I still had alot of trouble learning via this text. I found the abbreviated captions virtually useless and ill-concieved. It's one thing if you're tyring to quiz yourself and want a hint, but if you're trying to learn from scratch, it would have made much more sense seeing the long-hand terms written out in the columns so we know what we're looking at. Having to glance down at the caption and search for the abbreviation in question proved very distracting to the learning process. And the written text was...well, not enough text. Instead of offering helpful ways to differentiate and remember the many different body parts and structures, the text follows a very robotic "the A bone connects to the B bone which leads to the C artery and supplies the D organ...". I felt overwhelmed with similar-sounding descriptions and didn't take much away from the learning experience that wasn't lost in days. If I already had an understanding of cross-sectional anatomy before using this text, it may have served as a succinct review, but given the fact it is assigned to first-time X-sectional learners I felt it was too abstract and devoid of personality. If I decide to go into CT or MRI in the future, I plan on selling this book and doing a little research on finding the best and most current text available at the time. I can tell this one won't age well.