WHY YOU NEED THIS TEXTBOOK

"...This is an impressive textbook/tutorial that will be useful for most radiology residents and MR technologists preparing for their board examinations."

-Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, May/June 1997 , Jeffrey Duerk, Ph.D.

From the author:

Most MRI physics texts fall into one of two categories. They are either so filled with equations and technical jargon that the average student feels far too intimidated to even open the cover, or they harve over simplified things almost to the point of error.

Members of the radiology profession, whether physicians or technologist, are not dummies. Virtually all of them are capable of understanding the real workings of an MRI scanner if it is explained to them properly. Since February 1994 I have been responsible for teaching MR Physics to the residents and technologists at the University of Maryland, Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Alas, I could not find a single textbook that covered all of the important material in what I felt was a clear, concise yet complete manner. So I developed my own lecture material. To make life easier for my students, I put together handouts that included, on a single page, a pair of 1/4 page reductions of the lecture transparencies, a paragraph of explanatory text, definitions, key points and room for notes.

The response from my students was overwhelming. It became clear that I just had to turn these handouts into a book. The result is a student-friendly textbook of 130 pages divided into 11 chapters.