Second edition. Edited by Charles B. Higgins, Hedvig Hricak, and Clyde A. Helms. 1420 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1992. $169. ISBN 0-88167-837-6.
The first edition of this book was published in 1987, at a timewhen nonneurologic applications of MRI were in their infancy.Five years later, the editors, all members of the faculty ofthe University of California, San Francisco, have enlarged thesecond edition from 27 to 55 chapters and have doubled the numberof pages to more than 1400. This expansion reflects the remarkableadvances in the use of MRI of the body, including the musculoskeletalsystem, the abdomen and pelvis, contrast-enhanced MRI, and vascularimaging. The goals of the editors were to cover the major topics-- MRI . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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