Abstract
The physician confronted by a sick patient needs to know the nature of the malfunction and often is starved for information that might lead to a diagnosis. Our vision sees only the surface. What we wish to examine is the body’s interior. To provide this information, the patient’s body is interrogated by means of various probes. Each probe interacts in some way with the tissues. The nature and extent of the interaction and its anatomic location are noted.
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Oldendorf, W., Oldendorf, W. (1988). Introduction: Diagnostic Probes. In: Basics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Topics in Neurology, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2081-4_1
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