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Book reviews

Medical Imaging: A Concise Textbook. Ed. by Eugene R. Jacobs, pp. xii + 395, 1988 (Igaku-Shoin, New York), £29.75. ISBN 0–89640–126–X (New York), 4–260–14126–0 (Tokyo)

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This paperback has seven contributors, six from the George Washington University Medical Centre in Washington DC. Professor W. L. Olmsted states in his foreword that the book is written for medical students, first-year residents or general medical practitioners "who desire to get a thorough and basic introduction to the specialty of radiology".

The initial chapters discuss the physical processes involved in producing images, radiographic positioning and some aspects of the cost of imaging techniques (with a distinct North American bias). These are followed by a sequence of chapters describing the imaging of body systems. Finally, there is a chapter devoted to the future of imaging in which MRI is mentioned briefly.