The Physics of Diagnostic Imaging

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CRC Press, Apr 28, 2006 - Medical - 706 pages
Over recent years there has been a vast expansion in the variety of imaging techniques available, and developments in machine specifications continue apace.
 

Contents

1 Basic mathematics for radiology
1
2 Basic physics for radiology
29
fundamentals
71
specific machine design
97
5 Interactions of X and gamma radiation with matter
113
detectors
143
7 Photography and the film image
165
film and video
189
13 Digital fluorography
365
14 Computed tomography
381
basic principles
437
radiopharmaceuticals and imaging equipment
469
17 Principles of ultrasound
511
18 Ultrasound imaging
531
principles
559
20 Magnetic resonance imaging
575

9 Basic projection Xray imaging systems
227
10 Fluoroscopy
253
11 Computers in radiology
275
12 The digital image
313
radiobiology and risk estimation
619
legislation and clinical practice
635
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David J. Dowsett MSc PhD, previously Chief Physicist at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, is now consultant medical physicist to various hospitals in Ireland and actively involved in teaching graduate and postgraduate students in Ireland and abroad.

Patrick A. Kenny MA MSc PhD is Chief Medical Physicist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin. He is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Radiology and teaches Diploma Courses in Ultrasound, MR, CT and Nuclear Medicine at both Trinity College and University College Dublin.

R. Eugene Johnston MA PhD is a Professor Emeritus from the University of North Carolina, USA, where he taught and carried out research in medical imaging over the past 30 years.