Diagnostic-Imaging Books

This is a good textbook if you have other resources available to double-check the information. The main problem I found with this book is that it tends to contradict itself, which can be quite frustrating for a student who is preparing for a test. For instance, the text will tell you that a certain condition usually presents as a single lesion, but the table right next to it says that same condition usually presents as a multiple lesion. This doesn't happen all the time, but it is more often than I would expect for a textbook.

Also, if you are an instructor wishing to use the multiple-choice questions from the test-bank, make sure to review the answer key. Sometimes the answer given as correct it just completely wrong.

I have read the previous edition of this book. Compare the fourth edition, several improvements have been made in this edition: Each chapter begins with a list of key terms and definitions. Color illustrations and layout are used. A lot of new ultrasound images are added and the qualities of these images are much better. The text has been retrenched. Important points are put in tables for differentiation. Even there are still a few mistakes in this edition, I believe this is a great book.

We have instructed over twenty thousand professionals in diagnostic ultrasound and have found this text to be essential to any ultrasound practice. We recommend this text to each of our beginning and intermediate students, regardless of specialty of training or professional experience. Sandra has, over the years, consistently compiled a comprehensive reference for immediate and referential use. You will find it useful from the first day in the field, and for years afterward. Although it is by no means a basic text, its style is eminently readable and easily retained.

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT CHOICE AS ADDITIONAL REVIEW MATERIAL FOR THE REGISTRY EXAM. I USED IT FOR PHYSICS, IN ADDITION TO EDELMAN, AND FOR ADDITIONAL REVIEW FOR VASCULAR--WITH RUMWELL. THIS IS A GREAT PURCHASE, YOU WON'T BE SORRY! I PLAN ON USING IT WHEN I TAKE MY ABDOMINAL AND OB/GYN EXAMS.

This is excellent study to help you prepare for the registry. It gives you short review then questions covering this area. So it helps with refresher/which reduces your

I never saw this book in residency and I did just great. I'd look through your own library before putting out the price for this. Besides, the DR series anatomy books are going to be the more useful anyway. DR = Diagnostic Radiology series, by Osborn and others...check them out first, and I have no financial interest in their books.

The Cross-sectional Atlas includes radiographic images of every possible cross section as well as a detailed illustrated pen & ink drawing of the same area for cross reference. These two images are together on the same page for easy reference, and the pictures are all of the highest quality-- easy to see. John Wiley & Sons has made a beautiful product. It really is a must for every radiologist or any physician who wants to be able to read MRIs and CTs on their own. (The book contains both MRI and CT image.)

This is one of the few concise, comprehensive radiology books on the market targeted to a general audience. The ample diagrams, illustrations, and images are excellent, with clear attention to detail. Would highly recommend this book for any medical student, intern, or resident who would like a quick overview of radiology. A very wise investment.

I finished a 3 week rads rotation and was pretty disappointed in this book. The biggest downfall is that it doesn't give any information on how to read a study (films, CT, MRI, U/S) in a step-wise fashion. This book quickly dives into the most commonly seen disorders/studies that you may face on step-2. If you're looking for a quick review of HY topics for the boards then this book is pretty good. If you're looking for a book on how to actually interpret a study then this book is of little value. For that I'd recommend checking out Squire's from your med-library and go through the needed chapters.

En general, debería haber más libros relativos a palicaciones directas de las redes neuronales artificiales (i.e. control, identificación, simulación, modelación, etc.) es por ello que lo encuentro de muy interesante.

En general, debería haber más libros relativos a palicaciones directas de las redes neuronales artificiales (i.e. control, identificación, simulación, modelación, etc.) es por ello que lo encuentro de muy interesante.

It is a great book. It covers many a topics of the Doppler techniques, haemodynamics, etc. It will help learners and advanced students. Beware: once you star reading it, you cannot stop!!.

my review to measure the flow of the blood in the arm

From AJNR May 2006.
"The book is divided into 7 major parts. Part 1 addresses imaging principles. There is ample discussion of MR imaging, CT, positron-emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission CT or tomography (SPECT), functional MR imaging (fMRI), MR spectroscopy, magnetoencephalography (MEG), and magnetic source imaging (MSI). The second part is the most extensive. It is divided into 8 sections focusing on cerebrovascular disease.

Part 2 of this book culminates in a discussion of the imaging and treatment of cerebral aneurysms and vascular malformations... Part 3 discusses nonvascular disease entities of the brain. It is the second longest part and is divided into 8 sections. The first section covers both intra- and extra-axial brain neoplasms. There is a brief discussion on the evaluation of these entities with diffusion, perfusion, and PET imaging. The chapter on extra-axial masses provides valuable tables on the differential diagnosis of various lesions based on location. A chapter on metastatic disease will be a favorite of radiology residents studying for the boards as well as practicing radiologists. It provides a series of tables giving differential diagnoses based on imaging findings (eg, leptomeningeal enhancement). This chapter is followed by an equally excellent summary of head trauma imaging... Part 4 is a brief but excellent discussion of pediatric imaging... Part 5 is a bit unusual for a radiology textbook. It has an all-inclusive discussion of "Image Guidance for the Therapy of Parenchymal Disorders."... Part 6 treats the reader to the emerging field of MR imaging of the peripheral nervous system and includes a very useful section on technique... The last part discusses spine imaging and intervention. It is divided into 2 sections: degenerative disease and pain management, and nondegenerative diseases...

Overall, Drs. Latchaw, Kucharczyk, and Moseley have created a comprehensive and innovative book on the diagnosis and treatment of the nervous system. Its integration of radiology, physics, physiology, and clinical medicine is a refreshing and unique approach on the subject. The book provides the reader state-of-the-art techniques and crisp images. Radiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and physicists conducting nervous system research would very likely find this book extraordinarily useful."

After 4 years of waiting, this large 2 volume neuroimaging text arrived at my door, with my chapter in it. Noting that I have author bias, I would actually rate the book higher than 4 stars, but only gave it a 4 (I am saving 5 for a yet unpublished masterwork in imaging).

So, introductory chapters on imaging methods includes standard MRI and CT physics:
Principles of Image Formation
3 (46)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Principles and Techniques
3 (28)

Impact of Computed Tomography Advances on Clinical Neuroimaging
31 (18)

Techniques of Functional Imaging
49 (76)
Overview of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain: Current Status and Future Challenges
49 (10)

Functional Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
59 (30)

Mapping Brain Function with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
89 (12)

Magnetoencephalography and Magnetic Source Imaging
101 (24)


Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
125 (16)
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Intracranial Disease
125 (16)

These are actually pretty well written introductory and more chapters on complex, cutting edge topics. To learn something about functional mri, you could buy an introductory text or the huge brain mapping tomes (tioga et al.) but wouldn't get the full spectrum of neuroimaging. Head and Neck is lumped together in a large pair of chapters, and orbital imaging is separate, and the chapters on neurointervention are quite comprehensive, if not daunting. The only criticism i have so far is the eye strain induced by the anatomy chapter on cerebrovascular territories that tries "too hard" graphically, to include cortical anatomy labels with arterial maps, etc. The information is relatively perfect, but hard to look at.

This is a beautiful reference volume and is written in the typical prose style of multivolume texts; don't expect the short summary style of Osborne's new Amirsys textbook on brain imaging. A nice touch by Dr. LAtchaw et al. was including summary points, differential boxes, and pearls. These boxes nicely punctuate the text and make for easy reading. The editing - from my experience - was superb, ignoring a few minor typographical errors here and there. This book is a nice addition to your library (and no, I don't get a dime for it).

Oh, and since my chapter took a severe editorial shredding many times over 2+ years until I "got it right," I can finally say it came out rather well. Did I mention that many images in the text are incredible? The majority of chapters will delight you with some really beautiful current imaging depictions of pathology.

As a researcher in the neurosciences/radiology, this text served me well as my first introduction to the topic of Diffusion Tensor Imaging. It covers everything from the fundamental basics as to what DTI is exactly to the more nuanced aspects of processing and interpretation. This book is in many ways similar to Mori's seminal review articles on DTI and uses many of the same figures. Nevertheless, here is one unified text on a novel technique in imaging that has already shown great utility and promise for the future. This book is a must for anyone conducting DTI studies to teach others about the basics of DTI or to refer to occasionally for the more fundamental discussion of the technique.

I just took a look at this book at ISMRM in Berlin. It has (a lot of) very nice pictures, and I think it is a good introduction to diffusion TENSOR imaging. I guess for somebody who wants a first, simplified look into diffusion is alright, but not if you are into "real" diffusion.

It explains what diffusion is, how you can measure it with MRI, different pulse sequences, what b-values are, some math about tensors, how to measure the tensor, etc. He also acknowledges that some people look beyond that, with more complicated models which require more complicated analysis schemes.

However, since diffusion in the brain is proven to be non-Gaussian, why bother lerning about diffusion tensor imaging?

I thought this was a really interesting book on the sociology of MRI. It covers a lot of ground really thoughtfully. I'd recommend it especially to people who like Emily Martin's books.

With its catchy title, "Magnetic Appeal" was directed at a wider audience than the makers and operators of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ) instruments. The change from "NMR" as used by Chemists for decades to "MRI" was correctly described as a reaction to the anti-nuclear frenzy of the late 1970s. The author's purpose was unclear until the last third of the book, which was that there are possible dangers to patients who are scanned from the magnetic fields, and from misinterpretation of the images. Broader issues such as fee-for-service vs. fee-for-patient were examined, as well as the financial stress of the million-dollar instruments demanding rapid patient throughput likened to a mass-production line.

MRI images are shown to be artificial constructs easily altered by changing the computer settings of the instruments (p63), and not really a substitute for hands-on clinical examinations. They are often misinterpreted because no patient history or blood tests are available to the radiologists. They are often ordered to prevent malpractice lawsuits from succeeding. MRI is said the be "gold standard" of imaging when lower cost Xrays, PET scans, CAT scans or ultrasounds might give better results in a given case. The very useful electron beam tomography (EBT) and thermography are missing altogether.

Assistant Professor Joyce took the trouble to attend MRI conventions, search the literature, and conduct 48 interviews of MRI personnel of all types, from technologists, radiologists, physicians to inventors. Their interactions, pay scales, and hierarchy are all described.

Joyce made an attempt to explain the MR process, which did not satisfy my curiosity beyond the understanding that the magnetic properties of the nuclei of the hydrogen atoms in water are utilized to make the scans because the environment of the water molecules changes those properties. Not very edifying. A sample of a chemist's NMR spectrum was provided, but with no identification of the substance whose spectrum was shown, let alone which hydrogen atoms in the substance were responsible for which peaks.

As a book production, this one had all the marks of a professional job, with well-defined chapters, sections, many citations in Harvard style as endnotes, and a number of footnotes of explanation as well. Many interesting photos were included. There was an index. But there were no photos of actual scans showing how easily the images could be manipulated.

However, MRI devices are called machines when they should be called instruments. Research is not a verb. The words "trope" and "biomedicine" were not seen in Taber's Medical Dictionary. Palpitation was used instead of palpation (p68). Unfortunately, not minor, I found the writing style to be obscurantist for about the first 70 pages, but progressively less so from there on. For example, on p17: "The [Visible Human] project, funded by the National Library of Medicine, dissected and scanned two people who donated their bodies to science into thousands of images." On p20: "By tracing the political effects of different views of MRI examinations, I assert that popular perceptions that equate the image with neutral knowledge make it harder to understand how health care policies, the desire to create revenue, and time constraints shape image quality." On p48: "In analyzing these narratives [from interviews?], I attend not only to those discourses most visible but also to processes rendered invisible, showing how dominant accounts "black box" crucial decisions made by technologists and the interpretive work of radiologists and referring physicians." Hunh?

On p80 the MRI production line is compared with an old Ford line in a manner that implied lower quality of scans when they were produced faster, where such quality problems due to speedup on the Ford line were not mentioned. On p82: "Humans, like the raw materials on the Ford assembly line, can and do disrupt production on the imaging assembly line." Those must have been clever raw materials. On p96 and elsewhere "metal objects" are said to be violently attracted to the magnets in an MRI instrument. I thought that only iron and its alloys were, not all metals. An example of Joyce's difficulties with technology on p105: "Yet the radio frequency waves and magnetic fields created by MRI excite hydrogen nuclear spins to higher energy states during the exam thereby deeply interacting with the atoms of the body." Those spins have two equal energy states called up or down or north or south. MRI or NMR do not cause chemical reactions.

On p135 the footnote exemplifies the current delusion that detection is prevention.
In trying to show that MRI safety and value has not been sufficiently evaluated, Joyce falls for the propaganda that FDA regulations for new drugs require trials with stringent standards. Joyce is utterly unaware of the 30 or more ways to subvert those randomized clinical trials, and the hundreds of thousands of Americans' lives cut short by shoddy testing of drugs. Read "Deadly Medicine" and "Prescription for Disaster" by Thomas J. Moore and "Overdose" by Jay S. Cohen, MD, and "Overdo$ed America" by John Abramson, MD. Hence "Evidence-Based Medicine" has become a euphemism for biased trial results.

On p141 there are three citations to comparisons of MRI with other imaging types said to produce "a hodge-podge knowledge base" and that comparisons of MRI with non-imaging tests are mostly missing. A Google Scholar search on "comparison of MRI with other methods modalities tests" produced 87,000 hits to peer-reviewed papers!

"Magnetic Appeal" has interesting detail on how the field developed and operates. Sadly most of the worries, many of which may be well-founded, are not supported by real evidence in the book, which seems to exist to a greater extent than claimed. Assistant Professor Joyce appears to do well in her field of Sociology, but stumbled over some of the science and technology of MRI and medicine in general.

This is a very useful textbook which deal with the theory and practical applications of MRI. The first chapters examine the fundamentals of magnetic resonance. The book includes a comprehensive discussion of the basic mechanisms of MR contrast including T1, T2-weighted images, diffusion weighted images, MRI imaging of flow. The last part of the book considers MRI instrumentation including design of superconducting and resistive magnets.

This book isn't a bad overview of basic MRI fundamentals. I would have liked it better if it had a bit more background in the basic physics involved because I've found that there is a HUGE gap between these basic beginning books and the advanced ones. The beginning ones assume you know nothing and the advanced ones assume you've got a PhD in high energy particle physics.