Medical imaging essentials for physicians /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolbarst, Anthony B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Capasso, Patrizio, Wyant, Andrew R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex [U.K.] : Wiley/Blackwell, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sketches of the standard imaging modalities : different ways of creating visible contrast among tissues
  • Image quality and dose : what constitutes a "good" medical image?
  • The creation of two-dimensional x-ray projection maps (shadowgrams) of the body : differential attenuation of x-rays by tissues
  • 20th century (analog) radiography and fluoroscopy : capturing the x-ray shadow with a film cassette or with an image intensifier tube plus electronic optical camera combination
  • Radiation dose and radiogenic risk : ionization-induced damage to DNA can cause stochastic, deterministic, and teratogenic health effects and how to prevent them
  • 21st century (digital) imaging : computer-based representation, acquisition, processing, storage, transmission, and analysis of images
  • Digital planar imaging : replacing film and image intensifiers with solid state, electronic image receptors
  • Computed tomography : superior contrast in three-dimensional x-ray attenuation maps
  • Nuclear medicine : contrast from differential uptake of a radiopharmaceutical by tissues
  • Diagnostic ultrasound : contrast from differences in elasticity or density across tissue interfaces
  • MRI in one dimension and without relaxation : a gentle approach to a challenging subject
  • MRI with T1 and T2 relaxation and in three dimensions
  • Evolving and experimental modalities.