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Medical imaging : essentials for physicians /

This book is a concise, one-stop resource on medical imaging written for medical professionals, addressing a field of critical importance to them, in the language that they speak. Coauthored by a medical physicist and a clinical imaging physician, the book provides a solid working knowledge of the s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolbarst, Anthony B.
Otros Autores: Capasso, Patrizio, Wyant, Andrew R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sketches of the standard imaging modalities: different ways of creating visible contrast among tissues
  • Image quality and dose: what constitutes a "good" medical image?
  • Creating subject contrast in the primary X-ray image: projection maps of the body from differential attenuation of X-rays by tissues
  • Twentieth-century (analog) radiography and fluoroscopy: capturing the X-ray shadow with a film cassette or 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 protect against them
  • Twenty-first 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 sontrast in three-dimensional X-ray attenuation maps
  • Nuclear medicine: contrast from differential uptake of a radiopharmaceutical by tissues
  • Diagnostic ultrasound: contrast from differences in tissue elasticity or density across boundaries
  • MRI in one dimension and with no relaxation: a gentle introduction to a challenging subject
  • Mapping T1 and T2 relaxation in three dimensions
  • Evolving and experimental modalities
  • Suggested further reading
  • Index.