Contents:
Part I. Physics
1. X-ray production, interaction, and detection in diagnostic imaging -- John Boone
2. Applied linear-systems theory -- Ian Cunningham
3. Image quality metrics for digital systems -- James Dobbins
4. Flat panel detectors for digital radiography -- John Yorkston, John Rowlands
5. Digital mammography -- Martin Yaffe
6. Magnetic resonance imaging -- David Pickens
7. Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging -- Aaron Fenster, Donal Downey
8. Tomographic imaging -- David Goodenough
Part II. Psychophysics
Introduction Harold Kundel
9. Ideal observer models of visual signal detection -- Kyle Myers
10. A practical guide to model observers for visual detection in synthetic and natural noisy images -- Miguel Eckstein, Craig Abbey, Francois Buchod
11. Modeling visual detection tasks in correlated image noise with linear model observers -- Craig Abbey, Francois Buchod
12. Effects of anatomical structure on signal detection -- Ehsan Samei, William Eyler, Lisa Baron
13. Synthesizing anatomical images for image understanding -- Jannick Rolland
14. Quantitative image quality studies and the design of x-ray fluoroscopy systems -- David Wilson, Kadri Jabri, Ravindra Manjeshwar
15. Fundamental ROC analysis -- Charles Metz
16. The FROC, AFROC, and DROC variants of the ROC analysis -- Dev Chakraborty
17. Agreement and accuracy mixture distribution analysis -- Marcia Polansky
18. Visual search in medical images -- Harold Kundel
19. The nature of expertise in radiology -- Calvin Nodine, Claudia Mello-Thoms
20. Practical applications of perceptual research -- Elizabeth Krupinski
