AuthorHendee, William R
TitleMedical imaging physics / William R. Hendee, E. Russell Ritenour
Imprint New York : Wiley-Liss, c2002
Edition 4th ed
Descript xix, 512 p. : ill. ; 29 cm

CONTENT

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 [gamma] 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 on 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 -- App.I: Review of Mathematics -- App.II: Fourier Transform -- App.III: Multiples and Prefixes -- App.IV: Masses in Atomic Mass Units for Neutral Atoms of Stable Nuclides and a Few Unstable Nuclides


SUBJECT

  1. Imaging systems in medicine
  2. Diagnostic imaging
  3. Medical radiology
  4. Medical physics

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