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Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Principles, Methodology and Applications. Ed. by Felix W. Wehrli, Derek Shaw and J. Bruce Kneeland, pp. xviii + 601, 1988 (VCH Publishers, Germany), £69.00. ISBN 0–89573–349–8 (USA), 3–527 26701–8 (FDR)

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This welcome book is aimed at those seeking greater understanding of magnetic resonance phenomena and technology. An outline format is used throughout, making it a useful and portable reference. Subjects are concisely reviewed, well referenced and explained mathematically when required. There are numerous lucid diagrams and a number of illustrative images. The text is readable and mercifully free from imaginative analogy. Eighteen acknowledged experts and enthusiasts have combined to produce the guide to the how and why of MR.