Diagnostic-Imaging Books

Dr. Wolbarst makes excellent use of charts and graphs to illustrate the basics of medical imaging.Recommended for anyone intrigued by the amazing CT and MRI scans.

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This book is great. I got it simply to remind me of some patient positioning tips and views. The graphics and pictures are perfect and the points and tips are clear and concise. So line them up, bring them in and FIRE THAT BUTTON!

A must have for NP school. Great book. Thanks Amazon for providing the best prices and great services.

This is a great book. Excellent images including detailed full color drawings. Gets you quickly up to speed on spine imagining with the emphasis on MRI. Book is available in PDA and paperback format. I own both, but use the PDA version more often because also have the other pocket radiologist books on PDA eg. interventional, brain, head and neck and pediatric. The pocket interventional radiologist book has chapters on lumbar and cervical facet/epidural steroid injections as well as myelography, discography, vertebroplasty, needle control techniques, C1-2 puncture, SI joint blocks and spinal angiography.

This is a great book. It helped me get through my Lousiville experience with confidence. It is well organized and has excellent cases. You want this book!

Dr. Major has written an excellent overview of radiology packed with images for the reader to follow. In addition, there are color illustrations that allow pertinent anatomical review that correlates with the pathophysiology being described in the images.
This book is ideal for medical students during their radiology rotation and useful to help prepare for the boards. A must have.

I found this book, which provided me with some of the information I was unable to find in other echocardiography books, very useful and I strongly recommend it.

Textbooks are usually out of date by the time they are in print. Not so with Delbeke et al's new Practical FDG Imaging! This book is not only timely but excellent, written by outstanding clinical physicians and physicists who are also world-reknown educators. It is a very practical, "real world" book that is released at a critical time of explosive growth in FDG PET imaging. It stands alone in filling a badly needed niche in the education of imagers using this new technology.

The early chapters on the history of PET and the physics of PET are very helpful in understanding the basic science and political milieu involved in the subject. It is sad that this technology, with so much to offer suffering patients, has been held back by regulatory red tape and government shinanigans. PET still suffers in this regard to a large extent.

The later chapters are very instructive in pitfalls, normal varients, and in demonstrating "real" clinical cases, from the basic to the complicated - just as a practitioner sees in a "real life" practice of taking care of sick people.

If you are involved at any level with FDG PET imaging, I cannot recommend this book more strongly. You will find many useful pearls, broad understanding, interesting background, and exciting cases that will aid you (and your patients) immeasurably in delivery of state-of-the-art care in the foundation of 21st Century Medicine!

Well done, Delbeke and crew!

Han and Hurd have accomplished the best of works for the veterinarian who wishes to take diagnostic x-rays. This book can serve as both an introduction for students and as a handbook for the experienced technician.

The authors start with a thorough, yet very readable, exposition of x-ray generation. There is sufficient detail and diagrams so that the veterinarian can understand the important features of x-ray machines prior to making equipment purchases.

The next part of the book discusses all the factors that combine to make a diagnostic x-ray. They discuss achieving radiographic quality by controlling all the factors: exposure times, kVp levels, distance factors, etc. and lead the reader all the way through darkroom techniques and radiation safety.

Their chapter on developing a Radiographic Technique Chart is excellent. After going through the procedures as outlined in this chapter, the practitioner will have a solid appreciation of the functioning of their machine in their particular situation. They will have a chart that will enable them to set up to take fully usable x-rays - even in situations that occur infrequently.

The effectiveness of an x-ray in diagnosis is dependent on correct positioning of the animal. "Proper patient positioning is as important as the radiograph itself." Since even a little deviation can cause misinterpretations. Starting with a definition of terms, Han and Hurd give a thorough, well illustrated, patient, organized exposition of all the positions needed to take all the radiographs needed for both small and large animals. A section on contrast radiography is even included.

The section on Ultrasonography is brief but serves as a basic introduction to imaging for the practicing veterinarian.

An excellent book, a pleasure to read and imminently practical. Austin W. Fergusson, Ph.D.