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• Highlights key diagnostic details for all body systems and encompasses the full range of radiologic modalities and specialties with more than 1,800 images - all in one convenient source.
  
• Presents key information in an easy-to-read, bulleted format for quick reference.
  
• Describes important signs, anatomic landmarks, and common radiopathologic alterations.
  
• Provides extra space for note taking.
  
• Includes mnemonics and descriptive terminology to enhance recall of key facts, techniques, and images.

• Examines new technologies, including hybrid PET technology and new applications of MRI.
  
• Covers new techniques in interventional radiology and digital mammography.
  
• Emphasizes subspecialty clinical technical advances in CT and MR - along with their updated protocols - as well as the emergence of PET.
  
• Discusses current trends and changes in disease classification and their impact on the interpretation of radiological findings.
  
• Features the contributions of new editor John W. Chen, who shares his knowledge in MR and neuroradiology.
  
• Includes a CD-ROM featuring animations that depict the spatial and temporal complexities of MRI.

Average Customer Rating:

Every resident should have one

Customer Rating:

I own 3rd edition and the preordered 4th edition arrived yesterday. I believe every resident should have this book. However, if you already have 3rd edition, you don't need to buy the new one. There is very little revision and the companion MRI animation CD (prepared by two residents) is much inferior to the "MRI made easy" for beginner. Also, there are serious mistakes on page 1023. The authors don't really understand binary and decimal conversion. 10000000 (8bit)=128 not 256 (which is 100000000--9bit, 11111111 (8bit)=255). The authors just don't know how to handle first binary digit. Even thought it's 2>0=1, but when you convert, you do this 0x2>0 still 0, if it 1, then 1x2>0=1. The table, the answer to the example are completely wrong. It's not just typo or inocent mistake. The author simply don't know, period. Very embarrasing for authors from Harvard. But I still give the book 5 star. I understand every one has limitation.