Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging edited by Scott A. Huettel, Allen W. Song, and Gregory McCarthy, 492 pp., Sunderland, MA, Sinauer Associates, 2004, $79.95 Not long ago, if one planned to teach a course on MRI, it was necessary to come up with original lecture notes and assign primary readings because MRI was such a novel (and peculiar) mix of physics, imaging, and high-tech gadgets. Then came the explosion of applications of MRI, notably studies of brain function using blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI, and along with these advances came many books on the topic. The problem of selecting a textbook suddenly reversed; there were too many books (some of them very good) …