MRI Made Easy (For Beginners) Govind B Chavhan
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1MRI Made Easy (For Beginners)2
3MRI Made Easy (For Beginners)
Govind B Chavhan MD DNB Associate Radiologist Jankharia Imaging Mumbai
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© 2006, Govind B Chavhan
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To
Ravi Sir (Prof Ravi Ramakantan) the teacher par excellence unchallengeable Radiologist
‘Niswarth Karmayogi’ relentlessly working towards the benefit of thousands of poor patients the great igniter of minds this is for you
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7Preface
Radiology is the fastest advancing branch of medical sciences. It is moving from evaluation of anatomy to physiology, structural to functional, morphological to tissue diagnosis and biochemical information. MR takes the lead in this rapid march of advancement of radiology. No other modality has developed so much as MR in last 20 years. MR has emerged as strong modality, which gives final answer in many conditions in all body systems.
This short introductory book is the superficial overview of the subject explaining the basic fundamentals. This work is done keeping in mind needs of the person beginning to learn MR, specially radiology residents. In attempt to simplify the subject, many complex things have purposely been omitted. This book is by no means complete source of the subject. This should serve as an appetizer for further reading of this interesting subject.
This book is divided into two sections. First section deals with basic principles, instrumentation of MR system, sequences and artifacts. Also discussed are few basic principles of MR interpretations. Section two has some advances and higher applications of MR. Following are few things to remember while reading this book:
Govind B Chavhan
9Acknowledgements
I am fortunate enough to work under idols like Dr. Bhavin Jankharia and Dr. Meher Ursekar. Their immense knowledge and vast experience, to remain up-to-date with latest literature, giving best of the technology and knowledge to Indian patients, ability to give final answer and overall raising the standard of Radiology in India has influenced me a lot. Their keen interest in teaching Radiology and the academic environment created by sir and madam has improved diagnostic abilities of many radiologists. This book is the reflection of their work. Without their guidance this would not have been possible.
I am very grateful to the academic environment at Jankharia Imaging with availability of books, journals, computers, good cases and above all able guidance so that I could complete this book. The high quality images used in this book are courtesy of Jankharia Imaging.
I was also grateful to ‘Senior Sir’ Dr. G.R. Jankharia and Dr. Bijal Jankharia for their encouragement and support. Thanks to my colleagues at JIC Drs–Pradeep Krishnan, Kishore Rajpal and Devang Desai for their help. Thanks to our brilliant technologist C.T. Kurian for his help with sequences and images.
I was made in KEM. I am grateful to Ravi Sir and the Radiology Department for instilling in me ability, confidence and values for patient care. I am also grateful to my PG teacher Dr. Malini Nadkarni for her constant encouragement.10
My special thanks to Dr Manu Shroff, Sickkids, Toronto for his guidance and help.
I am lucky enough to have good senior friends like Titty Thomas (New York), Hemant Parmar (Michigan) and Vivek Sindhwani (Australia) who help and guide me. I am specially grateful to Hemant Parmar my ‘guiding star’.
My sincere thanks to Shri Jitendar Pal Vij and Mr Tarun Duneja of Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi for publishing this work.
Last but not the least thanks to my wife Barkha and my family for their support and time.