Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reading List

Being the personal opinions of Mark Cohen...

General Principles of MRI

Chapters 1, 2 and 3 In: T. Budinger and A. Margulis (Eds) Medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Press, Berkeley, CA 1986 (pages 148).: This is a basic primer developed by the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Roth K. "NMR-tomography and spectroscopy in medicine: an introduction." 1984 Springer-Verlag. Berlin New York.: Though a little dated, this book offers clear and intuitive information on MR basics, including instrumentation
Stark DD and Bradley WG. "Magnetic resonance imaging." 1992 Mosby-Year Book. St. Louis. AKA the big book of MRI.: Very clinical, with excellent introductory chapters on basic principles.
Farrar TC and Becker ED. "Pulse and Fourier Transform NMR." 1971 Academic Press. New York.: A good basis for a short course on NMR, this book is not afraid to use the odd equation to make analytic sense, without resorting to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians and other strange math forms.

Mansfield P and Morris PG. "NMR Imaging in Biomedicine." Advances in Magnetic Resonance. J. S. Waugh ed. 1982 Academic Press. New York.: Peter Mansfield may not write well, but the material contained here is seminal
Abragam A. "Principles of Nuclear Magnetism." 1985 Clarendon Press. Oxford.: This book is a modern analytic treatment of the principles of magnetic resonance. It is tough going for the non-physicist

Bloch F. "Nuclear induction." Physical Review. 70: 460-474, 1946.
Bloch F, Hansen WW and Packard M. "The Nuclear Induction Experiment." Phys. Rev. 70: 474-485, 1946.: These back to back articles report the first useful experiments in NMR

Lauterbur PC. "Image formation by induced local interactions: Examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance." Nature. 242: 190-191, 1973.: With this short paper, Lauterbur showed us how to turn NMR signals into images.
Kumar A, Welti D and Ernst R. "NMR Fourier Zeugmatography." J Magn Reson. 18: 69-83, 1975.: The definition of the modern 2D Fourier transform imaging method.
Hahn E. "Spin echoes." Physical Review. 80(4): 580-594, 1950.: Seminal Paper: Here Hahn uses geometry to explain the spin echo and the stimulated echo.

Rosen B, Belliveau J, Chien D, Cohen M, Weisskoff R. MR Perfusion Imaging. Oak Brook, IL: RSNA, 1990: 69-84.

Nishimura D, Macovski A and Pauly J. "Magnetic resonance angiography." IEEE transactions on medical imaging. 3(MI-5): 140-151, 1986.: This is a clear statement of the principles of gradient-induced velocity-dependent phase shifts and methods for their elimination.
Cohen M. Motion compensation in MR imaging. 1991.: (See BMD Web Pages) A restatement and extension of the Nishimura results that converts the problem to simple linear algebra. I should have published it.

Rosen BR. NMR Proton Chemical Shift Imaging. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984:
Brady TJ, Wismer GL, Buxton RB, Stark DD, Rosen BR. Magnetic resonance chemical shift imaging. In: HY K ed. Magnetic Resonance Annual 1986. New York: Raven Press, 1986: 55-80.

Haase A, Frahm J, Matthaei K. FLASH imaging: rapid NMR imaging using low flip angles. Journal of Magnetic Resonance 1986;67:258-266.: For this work, Frahm and Haase became quite rich. It describes the basis of low flip angle imaging.
Cohen M. "Rapid MR Imaging: techniques and performance characteristics." Radiology. J. Taveras and J. Ferrucci ed. 1992 Lippincott. New York.: This chapter has many examples of the contrast behavior of rapid imaging sequences as well as an analysis of the methods intended for the MR practitioner.
Cohen M, Weisskoff R. Ultra-Fast Imaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1991;9(1):1-37.: A long (tedious) description of the principles and technology of echo-planar imaging with some useful comparisons to FLASH. (includes some MRI and laser)

Jolesz F, Bleier A, Jakab P, Ruenzel P, Huttl K, Jako G. MR imaging of laser-tissue interactions. Radiology 1988;168:249-253.

Schenck J, Hart H, Foster T, Edelstein W, Hussain M. High resolution magnetic resonance imaging using surface coils. In: Kressel H ed. Magnetic Resonance Annual. New York: Raven Press, 1986: 123-160.

Belliveau JW, Kennedy Jr. DN, McKinstry RC, Buchbinder BR, Weisskoff RM, Cohen MS, Vevea JM, Brady TJ and Rosen BR. "Functional mapping of the human visual cortex by magnetic resonance imaging." Science. 254(5032): 716-9, 1991.: The first fMRI paper. Jack used injected contrast agents.
Cohen M and Bookheimer S. "Localization of brain function with magnetic resonance imaging." Trends in Neurosciences. 17(7): 268-77, 1994.: A review of the fMRI methods and results.
Kwong KK, Belliveau JW, Chesler DA, Goldberg IE, Weisskoff RM, Poncelet BP, Kennedy DN, Hoppel BE, Cohen MS, Turner R and et al. "Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of human brain activity during primary sensory stimulation." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 89(12): 5675-9, 1992.: With the Ogawa paper below, the first description of the non-injection functional MR imaging method.
Ogawa S, Tank DW, Menon R, Ellermann JM, Kim SG, Merkle H and Ugurbil K. "Intrinsic signal changes accompanying sensory stimulation: functional brain mapping with magnetic resonance imaging." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 89(13): 5951-5, 1992.