What Picture?, 24 Oct 2008
I can only think that the reviews of this book were by Physicists or by Radiologists who are tied to K-space
For Radiologists new to MR it is very limited.
If you are a Radiologist buy Leyendecker: Abdominal and Pelvic MRI, it has a good technical introduction and actually does relate the technical detail to the images.

useful and current, 02 Mar 2004
I bought this to help my practice in reporting MRIs rather than to pass exams. It has proved a good buy and has demystified pulse sequences to a certain extent. I am particularly pleased that specific pulse sequences on both siemens and phillips scanners are explained.
I still am confused about spatial encoding and fourier transformation but i dont think any book can make these subjects understandable!!
I would reccomend this book to radiologists who are interested in learning what those numbers in the top corner of the film actually mean.

Thank heavens !, 29 Sep 2003
At last a book about MRI which I didn't want to put down and which actually made me laugh out loud!
It is the best book I have read as far as understanding MRI physics and principles goes and makes a dry subject bearable and understandable.
I would thoroughly recommend it and think it will soon be indispensable in MRI depts.

Bridget Jones does MRI!, 24 Apr 2003
This book is actually funny, the laughing type of funny. It's not just the Bridget Jones' style week in the life of an MR radiographer, but hidden in the text are various one-liners - like the bit about taking off you watch and emptying your pockets when you visit CT! As well as lightening the subject the humour shows that the authors are not merely remote academics (it is a book primarily about MR physics) but real hands-on MR practitioners and excellent communicators.

So how hard is the physics? Well you have to read far into the book to get any. That's because it's written in a "back-to-front" manner. This ingenious trick enables the reader to become familiar with scanners, scanning and images without having to get bogged down with those bothersome protons and flipping and the like. Eventually the basic physics is introduced but by this time you are so well grounded in the practical aspects of MR - the pictures bit - that you are better equipped to handle the protons.

Another clever idea is having a main text, which is exceptionally easy to read, and optional advanced boxes (printed in a different colour). This makes the book accessible as a basic introductory text and also for more advanced students. It is possible however to learn almost all you need to know without reading the advanced blue bits (well at least I did). All the maths is in the advanced boxes -there are no equations in the main text (thankfully). Also, very handy for exams and interviews, each chapter starts with a summary of what you need to know from that chapter before it delves into the whys and wherefores.

So what does it cover? All the basics: scanners and the scanning suite, safety, basic clinical protocols, image contrast, pixels and matrices, image optimisation, artefacts and how to avoid them, image formation, resonance and relaxation, contrast agents, equipment and bioeffects. That's part A, the bit you can read backwards (and you really can). Part B consists of more specialist topics including all those difficult to remember sequences, angio, cardiac, spectroscopy and a useful chapter on QA. Finally chapter 16 includes EPI, functional, perfusion and diffusion, hyperpolarised gases and parallel imaging (SENSE and SMASH).

MRI from Picture to Proton contains probably more than any one MR professional needs to know but it's hard to imagine why you would need any other MR physics book ever. It's very easy to read, beautifully produced (2 colours on every page and a full colour section) with loads of images and very clear diagrams and in paperback (a hardback version is also available) at £34.95 it's not too expensive. I loved it. They should make it into a movie.

May sound backwards! It couldn't be more foreward!!, 18 Jan 2003
Probably the most significant MRI book that covers the physics, safety and basic clinical applications. The book has a novel approach by working from picture to proton. It is easy to read due to the excellent writing. The diagrams are fantastic, being clear and well anotated. The book is excellent for the first time reader through to the advanced reader. Complex physics is there but is separated in boxes that can be read by those who like that sort of thing. If you want to dip in to check something out, it is well referenced within the book so that links to underpinning knowledge can be checked out in other chapters (it works).

The week in a life of an MRI radiographer introduces humour for the first time into a text like this.

I firmly believe that this will become a key text for many courses and departments with MRI and replace other popular texts as the essential first book to buy and hopefully be very fullfilling for much longer.

What Picture?, 24 Oct 2008
I can only think that the reviews of this book were by Physicists or by Radiologists who are tied to K-space
For Radiologists new to MR it is very limited.
If you are a Radiologist buy Leyendecker: Abdominal and Pelvic MRI, it has a good technical introduction and actually does relate the technical detail to the images.

useful and current, 02 Mar 2004
I bought this to help my practice in reporting MRIs rather than to pass exams. It has proved a good buy and has demystified pulse sequences to a certain extent. I am particularly pleased that specific pulse sequences on both siemens and phillips scanners are explained.
I still am confused about spatial encoding and fourier transformation but i dont think any book can make these subjects understandable!!
I would reccomend this book to radiologists who are interested in learning what those numbers in the top corner of the film actually mean.

Thank heavens !, 29 Sep 2003
At last a book about MRI which I didn't want to put down and which actually made me laugh out loud!
It is the best book I have read as far as understanding MRI physics and principles goes and makes a dry subject bearable and understandable.
I would thoroughly recommend it and think it will soon be indispensable in MRI depts.

Bridget Jones does MRI!, 24 Apr 2003
This book is actually funny, the laughing type of funny. It's not just the Bridget Jones' style week in the life of an MR radiographer, but hidden in the text are various one-liners - like the bit about taking off you watch and emptying your pockets when you visit CT! As well as lightening the subject the humour shows that the authors are not merely remote academics (it is a book primarily about MR physics) but real hands-on MR practitioners and excellent communicators.

So how hard is the physics? Well you have to read far into the book to get any. That's because it's written in a "back-to-front" manner. This ingenious trick enables the reader to become familiar with scanners, scanning and images without having to get bogged down with those bothersome protons and flipping and the like. Eventually the basic physics is introduced but by this time you are so well grounded in the practical aspects of MR - the pictures bit - that you are better equipped to handle the protons.

Another clever idea is having a main text, which is exceptionally easy to read, and optional advanced boxes (printed in a different colour). This makes the book accessible as a basic introductory text and also for more advanced students. It is possible however to learn almost all you need to know without reading the advanced blue bits (well at least I did). All the maths is in the advanced boxes -there are no equations in the main text (thankfully). Also, very handy for exams and interviews, each chapter starts with a summary of what you need to know from that chapter before it delves into the whys and wherefores.

So what does it cover? All the basics: scanners and the scanning suite, safety, basic clinical protocols, image contrast, pixels and matrices, image optimisation, artefacts and how to avoid them, image formation, resonance and relaxation, contrast agents, equipment and bioeffects. That's part A, the bit you can read backwards (and you really can). Part B consists of more specialist topics including all those difficult to remember sequences, angio, cardiac, spectroscopy and a useful chapter on QA. Finally chapter 16 includes EPI, functional, perfusion and diffusion, hyperpolarised gases and parallel imaging (SENSE and SMASH).

MRI from Picture to Proton contains probably more than any one MR professional needs to know but it's hard to imagine why you would need any other MR physics book ever. It's very easy to read, beautifully produced (2 colours on every page and a full colour section) with loads of images and very clear diagrams and in paperback (a hardback version is also available) at £34.95 it's not too expensive. I loved it. They should make it into a movie.

May sound backwards! It couldn't be more foreward!!, 18 Jan 2003
Probably the most significant MRI book that covers the physics, safety and basic clinical applications. The book has a novel approach by working from picture to proton. It is easy to read due to the excellent writing. The diagrams are fantastic, being clear and well anotated. The book is excellent for the first time reader through to the advanced reader. Complex physics is there but is separated in boxes that can be read by those who like that sort of thing. If you want to dip in to check something out, it is well referenced within the book so that links to underpinning knowledge can be checked out in other chapters (it works).

The week in a life of an MRI radiographer introduces humour for the first time into a text like this.

I firmly believe that this will become a key text for many courses and departments with MRI and replace other popular texts as the essential first book to buy and hopefully be very fullfilling for much longer.

Radiography Students, 21 Apr 2008
This is a very good book, will contain all the answers to your physics questions. Its only down point is it is rather heavy going... you have been warned!
None the less i found it a brilliant aid as a student Radiographer.

The material within can be used in a better way, 10 Apr 2006
This book actually used to be better! In the days when the author of the material was Wilkes (more or less the same content), there used to be 'soap boxes' that gave more detailed explanations in a number of areas. These are now long gone. Likewise there was a section on exposure manipulation in some detail, now gone in recent editions.

There are unfortunately no practice problems that are really of a proper physics nature-the 'self assessment questions' pander to the 'descriptive philosophy' which just reinforces rote memorization-much like the old DCR requirements in exams -a philosophy that has never much changed despite change to degree.
This does not properly allow for a true understanding of physical principles in my view, rather a cursory type knowledge of 'stuff about radiological physics'. Like stamp collecting!

That said, the actual coverage of topics is decent (if limited to mainly diagnostic radiography) and has nice illustrations but suffers from a general lack of analysis and development of physical ideas and principles-totally unlike Wolbarsts recent text for example.
In this sense the texts title is not accurate, and unfortunately comes across as a collection of facts about radiological physics.

This book could still be rescued in future editions -include some worked quantitative examples-use computational aids such as spreadsheets (eg), give some practice problems with answers at rear, etc.

Basic physics. No ultrasound or MRI., 14 Oct 2005
The strength of this book is a broad presentation of physical properties of importance for generating images based on x-rays. The physical basis of important image modialities such as ultrasound or MR or the physics of CT scans are covered by 1-2 pages each in this book. I would therefore not recommend this book for a general overview of the physical basis of image modalities other than "classical" radiography.

A must have for all student radiographers., 07 Oct 2000
This book by Graham is a must have for all student radiographers, as it allows for all levels of background knowledge. This book on the whole clearly demonstrates and explains the fundamental principles involved in the process of image production in diagnostic radiography. However it appears limited from the point of Theraputic radiography. Despite this the book will enable you to grasp the concepts of many areas of radiological physics.

What Picture?, 24 Oct 2008
I can only think that the reviews of this book were by Physicists or by Radiologists who are tied to K-space
For Radiologists new to MR it is very limited.
If you are a Radiologist buy Leyendecker: Abdominal and Pelvic MRI, it has a good technical introduction and actually does relate the technical detail to the images.

useful and current, 02 Mar 2004
I bought this to help my practice in reporting MRIs rather than to pass exams. It has proved a good buy and has demystified pulse sequences to a certain extent. I am particularly pleased that specific pulse sequences on both siemens and phillips scanners are explained.
I still am confused about spatial encoding and fourier transformation but i dont think any book can make these subjects understandable!!
I would reccomend this book to radiologists who are interested in learning what those numbers in the top corner of the film actually mean.

Thank heavens !, 29 Sep 2003
At last a book about MRI which I didn't want to put down and which actually made me laugh out loud!
It is the best book I have read as far as understanding MRI physics and principles goes and makes a dry subject bearable and understandable.
I would thoroughly recommend it and think it will soon be indispensable in MRI depts.

Bridget Jones does MRI!, 24 Apr 2003
This book is actually funny, the laughing type of funny. It's not just the Bridget Jones' style week in the life of an MR radiographer, but hidden in the text are various one-liners - like the bit about taking off you watch and emptying your pockets when you visit CT! As well as lightening the subject the humour shows that the authors are not merely remote academics (it is a book primarily about MR physics) but real hands-on MR practitioners and excellent communicators.

So how hard is the physics? Well you have to read far into the book to get any. That's because it's written in a "back-to-front" manner. This ingenious trick enables the reader to become familiar with scanners, scanning and images without having to get bogged down with those bothersome protons and flipping and the like. Eventually the basic physics is introduced but by this time you are so well grounded in the practical aspects of MR - the pictures bit - that you are better equipped to handle the protons.

Another clever idea is having a main text, which is exceptionally easy to read, and optional advanced boxes (printed in a different colour). This makes the book accessible as a basic introductory text and also for more advanced students. It is possible however to learn almost all you need to know without reading the advanced blue bits (well at least I did). All the maths is in the advanced boxes -there are no equations in the main text (thankfully). Also, very handy for exams and interviews, each chapter starts with a summary of what you need to know from that chapter before it delves into the whys and wherefores.

So what does it cover? All the basics: scanners and the scanning suite, safety, basic clinical protocols, image contrast, pixels and matrices, image optimisation, artefacts and how to avoid them, image formation, resonance and relaxation, contrast agents, equipment and bioeffects. That's part A, the bit you can read backwards (and you really can). Part B consists of more specialist topics including all those difficult to remember sequences, angio, cardiac, spectroscopy and a useful chapter on QA. Finally chapter 16 includes EPI, functional, perfusion and diffusion, hyperpolarised gases and parallel imaging (SENSE and SMASH).

MRI from Picture to Proton contains probably more than any one MR professional needs to know but it's hard to imagine why you would need any other MR physics book ever. It's very easy to read, beautifully produced (2 colours on every page and a full colour section) with loads of images and very clear diagrams and in paperback (a hardback version is also available) at £34.95 it's not too expensive. I loved it. They should make it into a movie.

May sound backwards! It couldn't be more foreward!!, 18 Jan 2003
Probably the most significant MRI book that covers the physics, safety and basic clinical applications. The book has a novel approach by working from picture to proton. It is easy to read due to the excellent writing. The diagrams are fantastic, being clear and well anotated. The book is excellent for the first time reader through to the advanced reader. Complex physics is there but is separated in boxes that can be read by those who like that sort of thing. If you want to dip in to check something out, it is well referenced within the book so that links to underpinning knowledge can be checked out in other chapters (it works).

The week in a life of an MRI radiographer introduces humour for the first time into a text like this.

I firmly believe that this will become a key text for many courses and departments with MRI and replace other popular texts as the essential first book to buy and hopefully be very fullfilling for much longer.

Radiography Students, 21 Apr 2008
This is a very good book, will contain all the answers to your physics questions. Its only down point is it is rather heavy going... you have been warned!
None the less i found it a brilliant aid as a student Radiographer.

The material within can be used in a better way, 10 Apr 2006
This book actually used to be better! In the days when the author of the material was Wilkes (more or less the same content), there used to be 'soap boxes' that gave more detailed explanations in a number of areas. These are now long gone. Likewise there was a section on exposure manipulation in some detail, now gone in recent editions.

There are unfortunately no practice problems that are really of a proper physics nature-the 'self assessment questions' pander to the 'descriptive philosophy' which just reinforces rote memorization-much like the old DCR requirements in exams -a philosophy that has never much changed despite change to degree.
This does not properly allow for a true understanding of physical principles in my view, rather a cursory type knowledge of 'stuff about radiological physics'. Like stamp collecting!

That said, the actual coverage of topics is decent (if limited to mainly diagnostic radiography) and has nice illustrations but suffers from a general lack of analysis and development of physical ideas and principles-totally unlike Wolbarsts recent text for example.
In this sense the texts title is not accurate, and unfortunately comes across as a collection of facts about radiological physics.

This book could still be rescued in future editions -include some worked quantitative examples-use computational aids such as spreadsheets (eg), give some practice problems with answers at rear, etc.

Basic physics. No ultrasound or MRI., 14 Oct 2005
The strength of this book is a broad presentation of physical properties of importance for generating images based on x-rays. The physical basis of important image modialities such as ultrasound or MR or the physics of CT scans are covered by 1-2 pages each in this book. I would therefore not recommend this book for a general overview of the physical basis of image modalities other than "classical" radiography.

A must have for all student radiographers., 07 Oct 2000
This book by Graham is a must have for all student radiographers, as it allows for all levels of background knowledge. This book on the whole clearly demonstrates and explains the fundamental principles involved in the process of image production in diagnostic radiography. However it appears limited from the point of Theraputic radiography. Despite this the book will enable you to grasp the concepts of many areas of radiological physics.

A must for therapy students, 15 Nov 2006
I am a second year Bsc Radiotherapy Student and I cannot praise this book enough. It is easy to read and understand and the techniques are much more up to date than any of the other standard course texts e.g. Dobbs, Barrett & Ash. I think this will replace many existing text books as the essential course reader.

What Picture?, 24 Oct 2008
I can only think that the reviews of this book were by Physicists or by Radiologists who are tied to K-space
For Radiologists new to MR it is very limited.
If you are a Radiologist buy Leyendecker: Abdominal and Pelvic MRI, it has a good technical introduction and actually does relate the technical detail to the images.

useful and current, 02 Mar 2004
I bought this to help my practice in reporting MRIs rather than to pass exams. It has proved a good buy and has demystified pulse sequences to a certain extent. I am particularly pleased that specific pulse sequences on both siemens and phillips scanners are explained.
I still am confused about spatial encoding and fourier transformation but i dont think any book can make these subjects understandable!!
I would reccomend this book to radiologists who are interested in learning what those numbers in the top corner of the film actually mean.

Thank heavens !, 29 Sep 2003
At last a book about MRI which I didn't want to put down and which actually made me laugh out loud!
It is the best book I have read as far as understanding MRI physics and principles goes and makes a dry subject bearable and understandable.
I would thoroughly recommend it and think it will soon be indispensable in MRI depts.

Bridget Jones does MRI!, 24 Apr 2003
This book is actually funny, the laughing type of funny. It's not just the Bridget Jones' style week in the life of an MR radiographer, but hidden in the text are various one-liners - like the bit about taking off you watch and emptying your pockets when you visit CT! As well as lightening the subject the humour shows that the authors are not merely remote academics (it is a book primarily about MR physics) but real hands-on MR practitioners and excellent communicators.

So how hard is the physics? Well you have to read far into the book to get any. That's because it's written in a "back-to-front" manner. This ingenious trick enables the reader to become familiar with scanners, scanning and images without having to get bogged down with those bothersome protons and flipping and the like. Eventually the basic physics is introduced but by this time you are so well grounded in the practical aspects of MR - the pictures bit - that you are better equipped to handle the protons.

Another clever idea is having a main text, which is exceptionally easy to read, and optional advanced boxes (printed in a different colour). This makes the book accessible as a basic introductory text and also for more advanced students. It is possible however to learn almost all you need to know without reading the advanced blue bits (well at least I did). All the maths is in the advanced boxes -there are no equations in the main text (thankfully). Also, very handy for exams and interviews, each chapter starts with a summary of what you need to know from that chapter before it delves into the whys and wherefores.

So what does it cover? All the basics: scanners and the scanning suite, safety, basic clinical protocols, image contrast, pixels and matrices, image optimisation, artefacts and how to avoid them, image formation, resonance and relaxation, contrast agents, equipment and bioeffects. That's part A, the bit you can read backwards (and you really can). Part B consists of more specialist topics including all those difficult to remember sequences, angio, cardiac, spectroscopy and a useful chapter on QA. Finally chapter 16 includes EPI, functional, perfusion and diffusion, hyperpolarised gases and parallel imaging (SENSE and SMASH).

MRI from Picture to Proton contains probably more than any one MR professional needs to know but it's hard to imagine why you would need any other MR physics book ever. It's very easy to read, beautifully produced (2 colours on every page and a full colour section) with loads of images and very clear diagrams and in paperback (a hardback version is also available) at £34.95 it's not too expensive. I loved it. They should make it into a movie.

May sound backwards! It couldn't be more foreward!!, 18 Jan 2003
Probably the most significant MRI book that covers the physics, safety and basic clinical applications. The book has a novel approach by working from picture to proton. It is easy to read due to the excellent writing. The diagrams are fantastic, being clear and well anotated. The book is excellent for the first time reader through to the advanced reader. Complex physics is there but is separated in boxes that can be read by those who like that sort of thing. If you want to dip in to check something out, it is well referenced within the book so that links to underpinning knowledge can be checked out in other chapters (it works).

The week in a life of an MRI radiographer introduces humour for the first time into a text like this.

I firmly believe that this will become a key text for many courses and departments with MRI and replace other popular texts as the essential first book to buy and hopefully be very fullfilling for much longer.

Radiography Students, 21 Apr 2008
This is a very good book, will contain all the answers to your physics questions. Its only down point is it is rather heavy going... you have been warned!
None the less i found it a brilliant aid as a student Radiographer.

The material within can be used in a better way, 10 Apr 2006
This book actually used to be better! In the days when the author of the material was Wilkes (more or less the same content), there used to be 'soap boxes' that gave more detailed explanations in a number of areas. These are now long gone. Likewise there was a section on exposure manipulation in some detail, now gone in recent editions.

There are unfortunately no practice problems that are really of a proper physics nature-the 'self assessment questions' pander to the 'descriptive philosophy' which just reinforces rote memorization-much like the old DCR requirements in exams -a philosophy that has never much changed despite change to degree.
This does not properly allow for a true understanding of physical principles in my view, rather a cursory type knowledge of 'stuff about radiological physics'. Like stamp collecting!

That said, the actual coverage of topics is decent (if limited to mainly diagnostic radiography) and has nice illustrations but suffers from a general lack of analysis and development of physical ideas and principles-totally unlike Wolbarsts recent text for example.
In this sense the texts title is not accurate, and unfortunately comes across as a collection of facts about radiological physics.

This book could still be rescued in future editions -include some worked quantitative examples-use computational aids such as spreadsheets (eg), give some practice problems with answers at rear, etc.

Basic physics. No ultrasound or MRI., 14 Oct 2005
The strength of this book is a broad presentation of physical properties of importance for generating images based on x-rays. The physical basis of important image modialities such as ultrasound or MR or the physics of CT scans are covered by 1-2 pages each in this book. I would therefore not recommend this book for a general overview of the physical basis of image modalities other than "classical" radiography.

A must have for all student radiographers., 07 Oct 2000
This book by Graham is a must have for all student radiographers, as it allows for all levels of background knowledge. This book on the whole clearly demonstrates and explains the fundamental principles involved in the process of image production in diagnostic radiography. However it appears limited from the point of Theraputic radiography. Despite this the book will enable you to grasp the concepts of many areas of radiological physics.

A must for therapy students, 15 Nov 2006
I am a second year Bsc Radiotherapy Student and I cannot praise this book enough. It is easy to read and understand and the techniques are much more up to date than any of the other standard course texts e.g. Dobbs, Barrett & Ash. I think this will replace many existing text books as the essential course reader.

Excellent! Covers Everything (almost), 28 Jan 2003
As a beginner in the area of fMRI research (image analysis), I found this book to be a complete and comprehensive intro to the subject, written by the leaders in this field from all over the world. It covers everything in the right amount to give you an understanding of what is involved in Functional MRI. However, no one book can cover everything in this subject just because of its multidisciplinary nature that ranges from neuroscience to engineering and physics. It also covers some areas more in more depths than others. I found the physics part to be a little weak and not very well explained. The rest of the book is just Excellent. If you need to go deeper into any one single subject like neuroscience, physiology, image registration ...etc the book will point you in the right direction to get this info from the top people in their respective fields.