MRI Machines
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MRI Machines

A Complete Guide to MRI Technology, Medical Imaging, and the Magnetic Forces

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eBook - ePub

MRI Machines

A Complete Guide to MRI Technology, Medical Imaging, and the Magnetic Forces

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Chiify
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9798905164934
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Teaching Science & Technology

Table of contents

  1. MRI Machines
  2. MRI Machines
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. Before the Scanner: Medicine's Long Struggle to See Within
  8. CHAPTER TWO
  9. The Invisible Force: Understanding Magnetism from Lodestones to Superconductors
  11. CHAPTER THREE
  12. Spinning Protons: Nuclear Magnetic and the Birth of an Idea Resonance
  14. CHAPTER FOUR
  15. From Laboratory to Hospital: How the MRI Machine Was Built
  17. CHAPTER FIVE
  18. Inside the Magnet: Anatomy of an MRI Scanner
  20. CHAPTER SIX
  21. The Language of Signals: How the Machine Turns Magnetism into Images
  23. CHAPTER SEVEN
  24. Reading the Body: What Different MRI Sequences Reveal
  26. CHAPTER EIGHT
  27. The Brain Under Glass: Neuroimaging and the Revolution in Neuroscience
  29. CHAPTER NINE
  30. The Heart, the Joints, and the Soft Tissue World
  32. CHAPTER TEN
  33. Functional MRI: Watching the Brain Think in Real Time
  35. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  36. The Safety Story: What MRI Can and Cannot Harm
  38. CHAPTER TWELVE
  39. Open MRI, Low-Field Systems, and the Democratisation of Scanning
  41. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  42. The Future of MRI: AI, Ultra-High Fields, and Scanning the World
  44. CONCLUSION
  45. GLOSSARY
  46. BIBLIOGRAPHY & FURTHER READING

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