target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ue923e3db-782d-5d58-a89e-12217541f757">Part 2 includes a step‐by‐step guide to examining each anatomical area. It covers most of the common techniques and now includes sections on bowel and prostate imaging. Other examination areas have been updated to include techniques such as spectroscopy and there is a new chapter dedicated to paediatric imaging.
Under each examination area, categories such as common indications, patient positioning, equipment, suggested protocols, protocol optimization and artefacts are included. Guidance on contrast usage is also provided and all chapters also contain key facts and diagrams showing main anatomical structures. The fifth edition also includes a new section specifically related to slice prescription criteria with new localizer images (kindly supplied by ScanLabMR) and many new clinical images are provided. The accompanying website consists of questions and flashcards to enable readers to test their knowledge.
This new edition of the Handbook of MRI Technique is designed for all MRI practitioners regardless of their experience of MRI procedures. However, it is especially beneficial to those technologists studying for board certification or for others undertaking clinical MRI courses. The contributing authors and I hope that this new edition achieves these goals. Happy reading!
Dr Catherine Westbrook
Acknowledgements
My heart‐felt thanks to the contributing authors, Anne Bright, Vera Kimbrell, Elizabeth Lorusso, Bac Nguyen and Sara Sullivan, without whom this book could never have been updated. As usual, I am extremely impressed with their professional and thoughtful contributions and I am very grateful for their valued opinions and support.
I would also like to thank Dr John Talbot for his beautifully drawn anatomical diagrams and Christos Tsiotsios from the Ygia Polytechnic Private Hospital, Cyprus for supplying many of the MR images used in this book. A big thank you to Matthew Hayes and Andrea Graziano of ScanLabMR for supplying the new localizer images. This has been a truly international collaboration.
And thank you, finally, to my wife Amabel, my children Adam, Ben and Maddie, my mother Maggie and my sister Francesca. I have no intention of embarrassing you too much, so I will just say, I love you all very much!
Dr Catherine Westbrook
About the Companion Website
The book is accompanied by a website:
www.wiley.com/go/westbrook/mritechnique5e
The website features:
Flashcards
Multiple choice questions
Scan this QR code to visit the companion website.
1 How to Use This Book
Terms and abbreviations used in Part 2
INTRODUCTION
This book has been written with the intention of providing a step‐by‐step explanation of the most common examinations currently carried out using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is divided into two parts.
Part 1 contains reviews or summaries of those theoretical and practical concepts that are frequently discussed in Part 2. These are:
protocol parameters and trade‐offs
pulse sequences
flow phenomena and artefacts
gating and respiratory compensation (RC) techniques
patient care and safety
contrast agents.
These summaries are not intended to be comprehensive but contain only a brief description of definitions and uses. For a more detailed discussion of these and other concepts, the reader is referred to MRI physics books. MRI in Practice by C. Westbrook and J. Talbot (Wiley Blackwell, 2019, fifth edition) is a particularly useful companion to this book.
Part 2 is divided into the following examination areas:
head and neck
spine
chest
abdomen
pelvis
upper limb
lower
