MEDICAL IMAGING PHYSICS By WILLIAM.R.HENDEE

Book overview This comprehensive publication covers all aspects of image formation in modern medical imaging modalities, from radiography, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography, to magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound.  It addresses the techniques and instrumentation used in the rapidly changing field of medical imaging.  Now in its fourth edition, this text provides the reader with the tools necessary to be comfortable with the physical principles, equipment, and procedures used in diagnostic imaging, as well as appreciate the capabilities and limitations of the technologies.

Medical Imaging Physics covers all aspects of image formation in modern medical imaging modalities, from radiography, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography, to magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound.

Medical Imaging Physics addresses the techniques and instrumentation used in the rapidly changing field of medical imaging.

Topics covered include:

* Digital x-ray imaging

* Doppler ultrasound

* Helical CT scanning

* Accumulation and analysis of nuclear data

* Experimental radiobiology

* Radiation protection and safety

* and contains over 200 figures

Medical Imaging Physics provides the reader with the tools necessary to be comfortable with the physical principles, equipment, and procedures used in diagnostic imaging, as well as appreciate the capabilities and limitations of the technologies.

Contents

1. Imaging in Medicine

2. Structure of Matter

3. Radioactive Decay

4. Interactions of Radiation

5. Production of X Rays

6. Radiation Quantity and Quality

7. Interaction of X and y Rays in the Body

8. Radiation Detectors for Quantitative Measurement

9. Accumulation and Analysis of Nuclear Data

10. Computers and Image Networking

11. Probability and Statistics

12. Instrumentation for Nuclear Imaging

13. Radiography

14. Fluoroscopy

15. Computed Tomography

16. Influences of Image Quality

17. Analytic Description of Image Quality

18. Visual Perception

19. Ultrasound Waves

20. Ultrasound Transducers

21. Ultrasound Instrumentation

22. Doppler Effect

23. Fundamentals of Magnetic Resonance

24. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

25. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Instrumentation, Bioeffects, and Site Planning

26. Experimental Radiobiology

27. Human Radiobiology

28. Protection from External Sources of Radiation

29. Protection from Internal Sources of Radiation

30. Future Developments in Medical Imaging

Appendixes:

* Review of Mathematics.

* Fourier Transform.

* Multiples and Prefixes.

* Masses in Atomic Mass Units for Neutral Atoms of Stable Nuclides and a Few Unstable Nuclides

Index

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