MRI from Picture to Proton (Paperback)

1. MR: what's the attraction?; 2. Early daze: your first week in MR; 3. Seeing is believing: introduction to image contrast; 4. The devil is in the detail: pixels, matrices & slices; 5. What you set is what you get: basic image optimisation; 6. Improving your image: how to avoid artefacts; 7. Spaced out: spatial encoding; 8. Getting in tune: resonance and relaxation; 9. Let's talk technical: MR equipment; 10. But is it safe? Bioeffects; 11. Ghosts in the machine: quality control; 12. Acronymns Anonymous: a guide to the pulse sequence jungle; 13. Go with the flow: MR angiography; 14. A heart-to-heart discussion: cardiac MRI; 15. It's not just squiggles: in-vivo spectroscopy; 16. To BOLDly go: new frontiers; Appendix. Maths revision; Index.