Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3-Volume Set) (Hardcover)

~ David D. Stark (Author), William G., Jr. Bradley (Author)

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Product Description

Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha. Three-volume reference for imaging specialists. Previous edition: c1992 was a 1995/1996 Brandon/Hill,first-purchase selection. Musculoskeletal MRI information has been expanded to 17 chapters. Includes 6,353 illustrations. DNLM: Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2064 pages
• Publisher: C.V. Mosby; 3 Sub edition (January 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815185189
• ISBN-13: 978-0815185185
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 9.2 x 5.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 18.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,089,677 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only for reference, June 9, 2002

By A Customer

I bought this book to learn MRI, but the work is more of an encylopedia than a readable textbook. It contains too much useless information, while the important material is not particularly well written, presented, or organized; for example, the first 300 pages of physics is too often impenetrable and consistently overly theoretical, esp. the parts written by PhD's as opposed to MD's. The chapters are inconsistent in quality, varying from poor to very good. Although the book was supposedly printed in 1999, most of the references are 7-8 years old, the most recent being around 1995; this book is hardly state-of-the-art in its field. It is hard to believe that a book this expensive and in its 3rd edition could have so many typographical errors; did anyone proofread this book? The print is very small, the smallest I've ever seen in a top-of-the-line radiology reference work. On the plus side, it is well illustrated and an outline precedes each chapter.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ALERT!!!!, June 18, 2007

By	W. Peterson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Even thought Amazon.com says this is a 3 volume set IT IS ONLY VOLUME 3

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but dated, October 12, 2009

By	Lovblad (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Hardcover)

While this was THE reference on Magnetic resonance Imaging for a while, it has been surapssed by many other books and mainly by the one by Robert Edelman.This book suffers a lot from being first published in an era where MRI was the work of real pioneers and physicists; this renders the bok very difficult to read since the authors have very often placed scientific exactitude above didactic teaching. It is quite dated when you consider the things that have happened in the MR world but it does contain basic information on hardware softare etc that is not often available elsewhere. However if you are looking for an up-to-date book on MRI from both a clinical and scientific/technological point of view, you will be better off with the work by Edelman.