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Handbook of MRI Technique
Fifth Edition
Catherine Westbrook
The MRI Education Company UK
This edition first published 2022
© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Westbrook, Catherine, author.
Title: Handbook of MRI technique / Catherine Westbrook.
Description: Fifth edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021023430 (print) | LCCN 2021023431 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119759331 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119759485 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119759461 (epub)
Subjects: MESH: Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Handbook
Classification: LCC RC386.6.M34 (print) | LCC RC386.6.M34 (ebook) | NLM WN 39 | DDC 616.07/548–dc23
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Contributors
Dr. Catherine Westbrook, EdD, MSc, DCRR, PgC (Learning and Teaching, Higher Education), CTCert, FHEA
Catherine has both a clinical and educational background. She qualified as a diagnostic radiographer in the United Kingdom in 1981 and scanned her first MRI patient in 1989. She became an MRI educator in 1992 when she established the MRI in Practice course that is now taught in over 22 countries, both face‐to‐face and online.