The Physics of Medical Imaging reviews the scientific basis and physical principles underpinning imaging in medicine. It covers the major imaging methods of x-radiology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and nuclear magnetic resonance, and considers promising new techniques. Following these reviews are several thematic chapters that cover the mathematics of medical imaging, image perception, computational requirements, and techniques. Throughout the book, the author encourages readers to consider key questions concerning imaging. This profusely illustrated and extensively indexed text is accessible to graduate physical scientists, advanced undergraduates, and research students. It logically complements books on applications of imaging techniques in medicine, making it useful for clinicians as well.
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Adequate but outdated review of medical imagining,
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This review is from: The Physics of Medical Imaging (Medical Science Ser) (Paperback)
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Reprinted 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 This is pretty much the same text published in 1988 (after corrections) So: Fuzzy 80's CT scan illustrations Nothing on fat suppression, or more modern image acquisition sequences in the "Nuclear Magnetic Imaging" chapter Definitely no mention of harmonic ultrasound Many anachronistic references to 'future technological improvements' I am not sure whether the publisher's reluctance to update this book represents apathy or avarice, but the failure to more frequently revise a textbook in such a rapidly changing area relegates this book from serious consideration as a primary textbook. Some chapters are quite clear and complete (for example X-ray) but overall the writng style is a little obtuse. In summary- some good chapters but outdated, stylistically hum-drum and superceded by the numerous other texts in this area.
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In the chapters that follow, an attempt is made to describe the physical principles underlying a number of imaging techniques that prove useful in diagnostic medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
receptor unsharpness, localised spectroscopy, overall unsharpness, longitudinal tomography, point source response function, energy absorption efficiency, collimator surface, applied potential tomography, focused collimator, film granularity, radioisotope imaging, brain imager, direct deconvolution, modern gamma camera, localisation techniques, quantum mottle, dynamic scintigraphy, intrinsic spatial resolution, radiopharmaceutical distribution, rectilinear scanner, planar scintigraphy, proton image, magnification radiography, impedance imaging, fluorescent photons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Society of Magnetic Resonance, Academic Press, Churchill Livingstone, Royal Marsden Hospital, Aberdeen Section Scanner, World Health Organisation, Acta Radiol, Functional Studies Using, New Scientist, Con Imager, Ellis Horwood, National Radiological Protection Board, Nobel Prize, Physical Principles of Medical Ultrasonics, Boca Raton, Kiev Polytechnic Inst, Oxford Magnet Technology, Royal Cancer Hospital, Surrey University Press New!
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In the chapters that follow, an attempt is made to describe the physical principles underlying a number of imaging techniques that prove useful in diagnostic medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
receptor unsharpness, localised spectroscopy, overall unsharpness, longitudinal tomography, point source response function, energy absorption efficiency, collimator surface, applied potential tomography, focused collimator, film granularity, radioisotope imaging, brain imager, direct deconvolution, modern gamma camera, localisation techniques, quantum mottle, dynamic scintigraphy, intrinsic spatial resolution, radiopharmaceutical distribution, rectilinear scanner, planar scintigraphy, proton image, magnification radiography, impedance imaging, fluorescent photons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Society of Magnetic Resonance, Academic Press, Churchill Livingstone, Royal Marsden Hospital, Aberdeen Section Scanner, World Health Organisation, Acta Radiol, Functional Studies Using, New Scientist, Con Imager, Ellis Horwood, National Radiological Protection Board, Nobel Prize, Physical Principles of Medical Ultrasonics, Boca Raton, Kiev Polytechnic Inst, Oxford Magnet Technology, Royal Cancer Hospital, Surrey University Press New!
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- Physical Aspects of Medical Imaging by B.M. Moores on page 127, page 582, and page 583
- RECENT DEVEL MEDIC PHSY IMAGING by Clark & Go on page 317, page 506, and page 522
- Information Processing in Medical Imaging by C.N. De Graaff on page 317, and page 318
- Nuclear Medicine: [Part] 5 (Radiology & Imaging Self Assessment) by Shabu Karimjee on page 310, and page 614
- Practical Radiotherapy Planning (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Jane Dobbs in Front Matter, and page 140
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- Principles of Medical Imaging by K. Kirk Shung on 4 pages
- Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine by Suzanne Amador Kane on 4 pages
- Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging by Wade Allison on 4 pages
- Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering) by B.H Brown in Front Matter, page 343, and page 400
- Medical Image Registration (Biomedical Engineering) by Joseph V. Hajnal on page 10, page 97, and page 285
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