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Medical physics explained in 22 tales

11 Oct 2022 Tami Freeman

Tami Freeman reviews True Tales of Medical Physics: Insights into a Life-Saving Specialty edited by Jacob Van Dyk

Mirror images of two 3T MRI scans
Telling tales To create an image for the cover of the book, Jacob Van Dyk volunteered to undergo a 3T MRI scan. He notes that the two mirror images (generated using different MR settings) look like they are telling true tales to each other. (Reproduced with permission from Springer Nature, ©Jacob Van Dyk)
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