Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Body

A revised and expanded second edition of this text covering the clinical application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This new edition highlights significant advances in instrumentation, imaging techniques and diagnostic specificity and sensitivity and examines clinical applications of MRI.

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Substantially revised and expanded and thoroughly updated, the second edition of this reference establishes a basis for the clinical application of MRI in the 1990s. The book offers an overview of the physics and technology of MRI, an atlas of normal MRI anatomy, and a systematic review of MRI-detectable pathology of all extracranial organ systems. The text is illustrated with over 3,000 MR images and complementary CT scans and radiographs. This edition highlights significant recent advances instrumentation, imaging techniques, and diagnostic specificity and sensitivity and examines clinical applications of MRI, particularly in the musculoskeletal system. The second edition also includes a section on the new, improved MR contrast media and their use in the myocardium, abdomen, pelvis, and musculoskeletal system.