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COMPUTED CRANIAL & SPINAL IMAGING A PRATICAL INTRODUCTION
This book was prepared as a new edition of the previously successful Practical Introduction to Cranial CT. The most casual glance will reveal that this 'Practical Introduction' is more than just a revision of the first. The environment into which the earlier volume was launched was only just digesting the fact that computer assisted imaging had removed the indi cation for nearly all the time-honoured conventional radiological exam inations, and experience in the new technology outside specialised centres was limited. The situation is very different in 1987. Most medical prac-titioners have direct experience of CT and a reasonable conception of its major capabilities and limitations. Furthermore, spinal CT and computed myelography can no longer be regarded as too specialised for inclusion in an introductory text, and the advent of magnetic resonance imaging has had such an impact that its inclusion is essential also The result of this change is a book of entirely altered character, of necessity containing more discussion and including further reading, selected either as reviews, or because they illuminate concepts treated briefly in the text or illustrate significant differences in expert opinion.
Although the overall theme is a review, some topics are elaborated in greater detail where the concepts involved are of particular importance in determining an appropriate interpretation, for example, there is a greater emphasis on functional anatomy than one might expect from a text of this scope, and only some of the major pathologies are illustrated. It is hoped that this edition will be seen as a development of the first, and as such stands as testament to the way in which computed imaging has forged ahead and now dominates virtually all investigative protocols in evaluating disorders of the central nervous system and related regions.
John M. Stevens, Alan R. Valentine and Brian E Kendall, 1987
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