Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Kudos to the authors for finding a way to teach this dense material. For the most part the text was readable and helped me understand material which is quite frankly far out of my domain of expertise, though I was sometimes frustrated by the fact that important points sometimes seemed to get muddled because of unclear terminology or other unclear presentation. For example: "If k-space is sampled across a wide field of view but with a limited sampling rate, the resulting image will have a small field of view but high resolution." What?? I have been staring at this for an hour. How can something have simultaneously a wide and narrow FOV? Does k-space have its own FOV (their definition on the preceding page of FOV seems to limit it to image space, not kspace!)? I'm sure a seasoned expert will know what this means, but it makes me want to tear my hair out. This always seemed to happen at the most important points in the book on the nights where I needed desperately to understand the one sentence. If there were more/better supplementary materials, I would give it 4 stars. It would help a lot if the website had animations or other interactive materials. I saw an animation on a website and it made me understand a concept in 30s that I could not understand after many hours of reading this book.

Essential reference for fMRI, and does a good job of explaining at multiple levels of analysis (from broad conceptual strokes to the underlying physics). Very helpful diagrams and metaphorical/allegorical explanations.

This book is an excellent introduction of functional MRI with many pictures and diagrams, and nicely updated, for example, descriptions and pictures about head coils, compared with the former version. It covers comprehensive topics regarding the functional MRI. I strongly recommended this book to grad-students, post-docs, and any trainees who may consider using fMRI as a research tool.

Informative and very clear explanations

The text presents a solid overview of fMRI and would make an excellent text for advanced undergrauate/graduate courses if teaching materials were available. Sinauer, the publisher has taken a position that teaching materials will only be made available to those who may guarentee the purchase of ten or more books, which is a understandable in most university settings. However, when explaining that the courses I teach are conducted overseas (PR China) I was referred to their British Distributor, who must again insure that arrangements have been made to purchase the magical number of ten textbooks. I offered to pay for any teaching materials, but was refused with the caveate that the use of any illustrations from the text, even for the purposes of teaching, would require prior approval of Sinauer's copywrite office.If ones daily pursuits focus on research and the sharting of knowledge, the Sinauer books are of a high quality, but there are other texts from other publishers, i.e., Psychology Press, who are more willing to work with those of us interested in sharing knowledge, as opposed to those more interested in profiting from it.

Nicely formatted for those who want a thorough explanation but don't have much background in MR physics

Great book; clear explanations.

Product looks good and fits the description that was given. I am very satisfied with my purchase!

Over the moon to get this book at such a low price. I wasn't expecting much, but the condition was actually far better than the seller described. This is a core text for a course I am currently studying, and having my own copy has proved massively beneficial. I have a limited knowledge of Physics and Chemistry, but this book is written in such a way as to make many of the concepts easily accessible. Thoroughly recommended.

This has everything you need to know about fMRI! Great book, and one I will likely have for many years to come.

A life saver during my cognitive neuroscience masters. Good sections and summaries

Great textbook

I bought the book for my course in the data analysis of fMRI data with SPM and FSL. It gives a good oversight over everything related to fMRI from the build-up of the machine over the physics to the statistics part. Furthermore, it describes them in a good way and gives for the physics section even more than one way to show the mechanics behind it ( a conceptualized version and a mathematical version in which the physics behind it is explained by the concept or by the usage of the equations of the phenomenon). Additionally, it provides to each chapter a ton of explanations to the terms used in the text at the side of the page the term appears first in the chapter.