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Radiography in the digital age : physics, exposure, radiation biology /
Long overdue, this new work provides just the right focus and scope for the practice of radiography in this digital age, covering four entire courses in a typical radiography program. The entire emphasis of foundational physics has been adjusted in order to properly support the specific information...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springfield, Illinois :
Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd.,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- REVIEWERS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- PART I: THE PHYSICS OF RADIOGRAPHY
- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO RADIOGRAPHIC SCIENCE
- THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF X-RAYS
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL IMAGING
- LIVING WITH RADIATION
- SUMMARY
- REVIEW QUESTIONS
- Chapter 2: BASIC PHYSICS FOR RADIOGRAPHY
- THE BASE QUANTITIES AND FORCES
- UNIT SYSTEMS
- THE PHYSICS OF ENERGY
- HEAT AND STATES OF MATTER
- SUMMARY
- REVIEW QUESTIONS
- Chapter 3: UNIT CONVERSIONS AND HELP WITH MATHMATHEMATICAL TERMINOLOGY
- BASIC OPERATIONS
- Converting Fractions to Decimals
- Converting Decimals and Percentages
- Extent of Rounding
- Order of Operations
- Algebraic Operations
- Rules for Exponents
- CONVERTING TO SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
- CALCULATING WITH SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
- CONVERTING UNITS WITH DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
- AREAS AND VOLUMES
- THE INVERSE SQUARE LAW
- GRAPHS
- Reading a Graph
- Understanding the X-Ray Beam Spectrum Curve
- Understanding the Digital Histogram
- REVIEW QUESTIONS:Chapter 4: THE ATOM
- MATTER
- PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF ATOMS
- Electron Configuration
- CHEMICAL BONDING
- Covalent Bonding
- IONIZATION
- STRUCTURE OF THE NUCLEUS
- RADIOACTIVITY
- SUMMARY
- REVIEW QUESTIONS
- Chapter 5: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
- WAVES
- Practice Exercise #1:
- Practice Exercise #2:
- THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE FORMULA
- Practice Exercise #3:
- Practice Exercise #4:
- THE PLANK FORMULA
- THE NATURE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
- THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
- MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF WAVES
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)Lasers
- Computed Radiography (CR) Readers
- Laser Film Digitizers
- Laser Film Printers
- Optical Disc Reading and Writing
- CHARACTERISTICS OF VISIBLE LIGHTVS. X-RAYS
- DUAL NATURE OF ALL MATTER AND RADIATION
- SUMMARY
- REVIEW QUESTIONS
- Chapter 6: MAGNETISM AND ELECTROSTATICS
- MAGNETS
- MAGNETIC FIELDS
- ELECTROSTATICS
- The Five Laws of Electrostatics
- ELECTRIFICATION
- Using an Electroscope to Detect Radiation
- SUMMARY
- REVIEW QUESTIONS
- Chapter 7: ELECTRODYNAMICS
- ELECTRICAL CURRENT
- Practice Exercise #1Practice Exercise #2
- ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS
- CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRICITY
- Practice Exercise #3
- Practice Exercise #4
- Practice Exercise #5
- ELECTRICAL POWER
- Practice Exercise #6
- Practice Exercise #7
- WAVE FORMS OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT
- ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
- Practice Exercise #8
- Practice Exercise #9
- SUMMARY
- REVIEW QUESTIONS
- Chapter 8: X-RAY MACHINE CIRCUITS AND GENERATORS
- A BASIC X-RAY MACHINE CIRCUIT
- Rectification
- The Filament Circuit
- Meters
- X-RAY MACHINE GENERATORS