MRI from A to Z: A Definitive Guide for Health Professionals

One of the most dramatic changes in medical history came with the discovery of X‐rays. For the very first time, physicians could actually look inside their patients, rather than sitting outside and guessing. Since then, of course, techniques for looking inside patients have developed enormously. The most important of these is magnetic resonance imaging. Magnetic resonance imagers have developed their own technical vocabulary, much of it overlapping with that of physics and of electronic engineering, but some of it an abstruse jargon of their own. The technology is developing at an extremely rapid rate, so the vocabulary needs to be...