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PAIN IMAGING. Progress in Pain Research and Management Series, Vol. 18
Department of Physiology and Experimental Pathophysiology, University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
PAIN IMAGING. Progress in pain research and management series, Vol. 18.
Edited by K. L. Casey and M. C. Bushnell.
2000. Seattle: IASP Press.
Price $89. Pp. 248. ISBN 0-93109-234-5..
Most scientists in basic or applied brain research are under the impression that imaging techniques are about to revolutionize their field of research, even when they are not directly involved. One gets easily overwhelmed by the speed of this development. Many people now have access to an MRI device of the last generation and, in every research centre which deserves its name, the acquisition of an MR-scanner with more than conventional magnetic field strength has already been announced or is at least planned. The