MRI Machines
A Complete Guide to MRI Technology, Medical Imaging, and the Magnetic ForcesBy Harold M.Stevens
Length2h 43m
About this audiobook
Most people lie inside an MRI scanner and have no idea what it's doing. This book changes that.
A Complete Guide to MRI Technology, Medical Imaging, and the Magnetic Forces That Reveal Everything takes you inside the world's most sophisticated diagnostic machine — from the superconducting magnet cooled to near absolute zero, to the millisecond-by-millisecond process that turns atomic signals into crystal-clear images of your brain, heart, and spine.
Gripping. Authoritative. Written for real people — not textbooks.
If you've ever had an MRI, know someone who has, or simply want to understand one of humanity's greatest scientific achievements — start here.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Technology
Length2 hrs 43 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
43T2-Weighted Imaging: Finding Pathology
2MRI Machines
44FLAIR: Suppressing the Noise of Fluid
3INTRODUCTION
45Diffusion-Weighted Imaging: Mapping Molecular Motion
4CHAPTER ONE
46MR Angiography: Imaging Blood Vessels Without Needles
5Before the Scanner: Medicine's Long Struggle to See Within
47CHAPTER EIGHT
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6The Stethoscope: Hearing What Cannot Be Seen
48The Brain Under Glass: Neuroimaging and the Revolution in Neuroscience
7The X-Ray: The First Window Into the Living Body
49Why the Brain Is MRI's Greatest Achievement
8Ultrasound, CT, and the Era of Cross-Sectional Imaging
50The White Matter Revolution
9The Gap That MRI Would Fill
51Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Mapping the Brain's Wiring
10CHAPTER TWO
52Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Chemistry of the Brain
11The Invisible Force: Understanding Magnetism from Lodestones to Superconductors
53CHAPTER NINE
12What Magnetism Actually Is
54The Heart, the Joints, and the Soft Tissue World
13From Bar Magnets to Superconducting Coils
55MRI and the Musculoskeletal System
14The Superconducting Magnet at the Heart of MRI
56Cardiac MRI: Seeing the Beating Heart
15The Fringe Field: Magnetism Beyond the Machine
57MRI of the Spine: The Disc and Beyond
16CHAPTER THREE
58Abdominal and Pelvic MRI: The Soft Tissue Interior
17Spinning Protons: Nuclear Magnetic and the Birth of an Idea Resonance
59CHAPTER TEN
18The Quantum Mechanics of Spin
60Functional MRI: Watching the Brain Think in Real Time
19Larmor Precession: The Proton's Dance
61How fMRI Works in Practice
20Relaxation: How Protons Return to Rest
62Clinical fMRI: Mapping the Eloquent Cortex
21Raymond Damadian and Paul Lauterbur: The Imaging Leap
63Resting-State fMRI: The Brain at Rest
22CHAPTER FOUR
64CHAPTER ELEVEN
23From Laboratory to Hospital: How the MRI Machine Was Built
65The Safety Story: What MRI Can and Cannot Harm
24Raymond Damadian's INDOMITABLE
66The Four Safety Zones
25The British Contribution: Nottingham and Aberdeen
67Implanted Devices: The Complex Calculus of MRI Safety
26The Superconducting Revolution and Commercial Development
68Heating and the Radio-Frequency Safety Limit
27From Research Tool to Clinical Standard
69The Safety of No Ionising Radiation
28CHAPTER FIVE
70CHAPTER TWELVE
29Inside the Magnet: Anatomy of an MRI Scanner
71Open MRI, Low-Field Systems, and the Democratisation of Scanning
30The Cryostat and the Superconducting Magnet
72Open MRI: Wider World, Weaker Field
31Gradient Coils: Drawing the Map
73Low-Field Portable MRI: Bringing the Scanner to the Patient
32The Radio-Frequency System: Transmitter and Receiver
74MRI in Low-Resource Settings
33The Computer System: From Signal to Image
75Paediatric MRI: The Unique Challenge of Imaging Children
34CHAPTER SIX
76CHAPTER THIRTEEN
35The Language of Signals: How the Machine Turns Magnetism into Images
77The Future of MRI: AI, Ultra-High Fields, and Scanning the World
36Slice Selection: Choosing Your Cross-Section
78Ultra-High Field MRI: 7 Tesla and Beyond
37Phase Encoding and Frequency Encoding: Building the Image
79Artificial Intelligence and the Reading Revolution
38K-Space: The Strange Geography of MRI Data
80Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting: Quantitative MRI
39Artefacts: When the Image Lies
81The Next Horizon: MRI and the Global Disease Burden
40CHAPTER SEVEN
82CONCLUSION
41Reading the Body: What Different MRI Sequences Reveal
83BIBLIOGRAPHY & FURTHER READING
42T1-Weighted Imaging: Anatomy in High Relief
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