Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Introduction to Methods (Hardcover)

~ Peter Jezzard (Editor), Paul M. Matthews (Editor), Stephen M. Smith (Editor) "This chapter is intended to provide an overview of fMRI methods and applications..." (more)
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The rapidly growing field of functional MR imaging research clearly needs a textbook like this one ... The book is well organized and easy to search; each chapter contains logical subsections. The quality of printing paper, figures and tables is consistently high, and the figures are helpful and often beautiful. The chapters succinctly cover basic MR imaging principles, biophysics, and technical matters that arise in functional MR imaging research. The chapter on how to use functional MR imaging to begin to understand effective connectivity is a masterpiece ... We recommend this text to a wide range of readers: to clinicians who desire a more than cursory review of this growing area; to novice researchers in this field ... and to experienced researchers who require a solid review and reference text on the state of the art of functional MR imaging. Radiology

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"...well written and should find a prominent place in the cubicles of aspiring and established fMRI researchers."--Nature Neuroscience, volume 5, no 5, May 2002
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1st edition (December 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192630717
• ISBN-13: 978-0192630711
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,367,240 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent !!! Covers everything (almost)!!!, January 28, 2003

By	"rkn77" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews

As a beginner in the area of fMRI research (just started my Ph.D.- engineering - image analysis), I found this book to be a complete and comprehensive intro to the subject, written by the leaders in this field form all over the world. It covers everything in the right amount to give you an understanding of what is involved in Functional MRI. However, no one book can cover everything in this subject just because of its multidisciplinary nature that ranges from neuroscience to engineering and physics. It also covers some areas more in more depths than others. I found the physics part to be a little weak and not very well explained. The rest of the book is just Excellent. If you need to go deeper into any one single subject like neuroscience, physiology, image registration ...etc the book will point you in the right direction to get this info from the top people in their respective fields.