 | Diagnostic Imaging: Brain by Anne Osborn
Buy used from: $300.04 Outstanding outline format has 4 pages/disease (1.5 are images): keys, locale, CT density, MR intensities, differential images, path, and clinical. A little more clinical would make it a good CNS text. Good for inservice, AAN's UCNS' NI certification, and interpreting scans. Book bots (fetchbook.info) compare prices.
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 | Diagnostic Imaging: Spine by Jeff Ross
Buy new: $223.20 / Used from: $255.25 Same outstanding publisher Amirsys outline format. For AAN's UCNS' NI certification exam and interpreting. Cons of series' format are not having chapters on sequence-related artifacts nor normal variations although some is present in the disease imaging descriptions.
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 | Diagnostic Imaging: Head and Neck (Diagnostic Imaging) by Ric Harnsberger
Buy new: $223.20 / Used from: $589.91 Outstanding. Good if you interpret brain and cervical spine scans regarding non-neuro issues (e.g., co-existing sinus polyp).
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 | Diagnostic and Surgical Imaging Anatomy: Brain, Head and Neck, Spine: Published by Amirsys® by H. Ric Harnsberger
Buy new: $199.20 / Used from: $161.99 Outstanding. For normal NI anatomy. Some outline format as the other "Diagnostic Imaging" texts, but this is about anatomy, so it's mostly pictures.
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 | Diagnostic Imaging: Pediatric Neuroradiology by A. James Barkovich
Buy new: $223.20 / Used from: $249.17 The same outline format as other "Diagnostic Imaging" texts. Good if you specialize in pediatric neurology or interpret neuropeds.
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 | Ajnr - American Journal of Neuroradiology
Buy new: $295.00 Neurologists' Journal of NI (ASN's www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1051-2284) for now is less useful for NI, clinical, and CME than AJNR, which is very good. Www.radlist.com/index.asp and www.cmelist.com/radiology.htm list NI CME sources. Expensive CME at www.cmeinfo.com/store_temp/listsubcats.asp?subcat=34 and www.edusymp.com/. More NI CME below.
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 | Clinical Neurology (Lange Medical Books) by Michael J. Aminoff
Buy new: $34.47 / Used from: $28.99 Very good. Victor, Merrit, and Bradley reference texts are a lot longer, but this covers 90% of practice.
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 | Handbook of Neurosurgery by Mark S. Greenberg
Buy new: $71.96 / Used from: $68.90 Outstanding. Fast outline format.
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 | Neurosonology by Charles H. Tegeler
Buy new: $205.00 / Used from: $75.43 Wake Forest's Tegeler offers www1.wfubmc.edu/ultrasound/Courses/Neurovascular+Interpretation.htm & www1.wfubmc.edu/ultrasound/Courses/Neurovascular+Ultrasound.htm CME that help meet the IAC's US interpreting requirements at www.intersocietal.org/icavl/pdfs/organization_2005.pdf.
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 | Cerebrovascular Ultrasound in Stroke Prevention and Treatment
Buy new: $191.96 / Used from: $177.76 Have not read this, but it is more recent than Tegeler's text.
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 | Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders: Clinical-Electrophysiologic Correlations, Textbook with CD-ROM by David C. Preston
Buy new: $125.58 / Used from: $200.65 Very good. CD video of EMG potentials is very helpful.
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 | EMG Pearls by Steven Greenberg
Buy used from: $166.20 Good cases. AAPMR has 88 cases online at www.aapmr.org/education/cme.htm.
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 | Fisch and Spehlmann's EEG Primer: Basic Principles of Digital and Analog EEG
Buy new: $118.00 / Used from: $93.99 Good. Review an EEG atlas after the Primer.
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![Sleep Medicine Pearls [2nd Edition] (Pearls)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RCFE92A8L._SL75_.jpg) | Sleep Medicine Pearls [2nd Edition] (Pearls) by Richard B. Berry
Buy new: $44.96 / Used from: $43.98 Very good. Sleep certification is at www.abpn.com/downloads/ifas/sleep_medicine_requirements.pdf.
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| Clinical Sleep Disorders
Buy new: $110.00 / Used from: $75.00 Good. One of the co-authors also wrote Sleep Medicine Pearls. Do not waste your time (shouldn't be over an inch thick) and money on thick reference sleep texts.
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 | Sleep Medicine in Clinical Practice by Michael H. Silber
Buy used from: $302.96 Good. An alternative sleep text.
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 | Atlas of Sleep Medicine by Sudhansu Chokroverty
Buy new: $87.20 / Used from: $100.54 I have not read it, but I have read all the alternatives and only recommend Butkov's atlas (below) if it were cheaper, so this may be a good alternative.
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| Atlas of Clinical Polysomnography (2 Volume Set) by Nic Butkov
Buy used from: $325.00 Good two volume atlas is sold directly at www.synapsemedia.com/atlas.html for $225. It's too expensive, and most sleep labs have a copy you can review.
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 | Reeder and Felson's Gamuts in Radiology: Comprehensive Lists of Roentgen Differential Diagnosis
Buy new: $162.00 / Used from: $58.61 Good NI chapters with differential lists based on density, intensity, or location. No prose just lists. No pictures.
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 | Neuroradiology: The Requisites (Requisites in Radiology) by Robert I. Grossman
Buy new: $102.00 / Used from: $89.99 Good, but less images and slower prose than Diagnostic Imaging series' faster outline format. Includes brain, spine, head and neck, some physics, and gamuts. Has paperback brain, spine, and head and neck case books too (below).
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 | Brain Imaging: Case Review Series (Case Review) by Laurie A. Loevner
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $36.99 Goes with the above "Neuroradiology: The Requisites" text, but the two books are independent, so it is good for NI cases by itself. Inexpensive.
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 | Spine Imaging: Case Review Series (Case Review) by Brian C. Bowen
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $42.00 Goes with the above "Neuroradiology: The Requisites" text.
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 | Head & Neck Imaging: Case Review Series by David M. Yousem
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $32.00 Goes with the above "Neuroradiology: The Requisites" text.
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 | Neuroradiology Companion: Methods, Guidelines, and Imaging Fundamentals (Imaging Companion Series) by Mauricio Castillo
Buy new: $79.95 / Used from: $73.67 Good and short.
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 | Neuroimaging Clinics of North America
Buy new: $250.00 NI Clinics' articles are okay, but the $3/CME is attractive if your library carries the series. USUHS (http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/master.php3?mode=cow_sorter&authid=&max=4) has biweekly free NI CME cases (a great teaching file too), eMedicine's NI CME is $5/hour, and Medscape has some free NI CME. Other NI CME is usually over $10-50 per hour.
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 | MRI: The Basics by Ray H Hashemi
Buy new: $53.96 / Used from: $42.50 Okay for MRI physics for AAN's UCNS' NI certification exam. Nice chart explaining long and short T1 and T2. Ignore most of the equations. Con is one author has told neurologist jokes (not in book), which given ACR's economic power over neurology can promote a hostile workplace. "MRI Principles" by Donald G. Mitchell is a second option.
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 | Neuroimaging (2-Volume Set)
Buy used from: $1,086.69 An okay traditional reference. Advantages over contemporary Amirsys' texts are the very good "Normal Variations of the Head" chapter (if your library has it, this chapter is definitely worth reading) and technical chapters (CT production, MRA limitations, contrast agents).
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 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine (2 Volume Set) by Scott W Atlas
Buy new: $321.76 / Used from: $272.43 Another okay traditional reference. Advantages over contemporary Amirsys' texts are technical chapters on MRA's limitations, MR flow effects, and MR artifacts (also in MR physics books).
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 | Atlas of Neuroradiologic Embryology, Anatomy, and Variants by J. Randy Jinkins
Buy new: $199.00 / Used from: $146.99 I haven't seen this book, but normal variants are important (e.g., an MRA reported as an occluded vertebral but was really a congenital normal vertebral that ended in PICA). The above Amirsys Diagnostic Imaging Anatomy text doesn't focus on variants, but some texts include some.
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