MRI in Clinical Practice

"MRI in Clinical Practice" provides an easily accessible source of reference material to supplement existing texts, distilling a wide breadth of theoretical and practical information into a pocket-sized manual. The book covers the basic Physics behind MRI, quality assurance, up-to-date safety guidelines and a useful gallery of image artefacts. Part of the book focuses on the specific areas of the body in which MRI is currently exploited, describing how MRI is performed in practice. As well as covering routine clinical techniques, the latest advanced methods (e.g. spectroscopy, fMRI, diffusion, high field MRI) are discussed and placed into the context of clinical application. Written from both a Physics and Radiological point-of-view, the book has a wide multidisciplinary appeal and is specifically targeted at MRI practitioners or trainees, as well as post-graduate students, physicists, radiographers and radiologists. TOC:The basics.- Safety.- Scan parameters and image artefacts.- Quality assurance.- Brain and spine.- Breast.- Abdomen and pelvis.- Cardiac MRI.- MR angiography.- Musculo-skeletal MRI.- Appendices.