Description
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- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- New to This Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Basic Imaging Principles
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 History of Medical Imaging
- 1.2 Physical Signals
- 1.3 Imaging Modalities
- 1.4 Projection Radiography
- 1.5 Computed Tomography
- 1.6 Nuclear Medicine
- 1.7 Ultrasound Imaging
- 1.8 Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 1.9 Multimodality Imaging
- 1.10 Summary and Key Concepts
- 2 Signals and Systems
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Signals
- 2.3 Systems
- 2.4 The Fourier Transform
- 2.5 Properties of the Fourier Transform
- 2.6 Transfer Function
- 2.7 Circular Symmetry and the Hankel Transform
- 2.8 Summary and Key Concepts
- 3 Image Quality
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Contrast
- 3.3 Resolution
- 3.4 Noise
- 3.5 Signal-to-Noise Ratio
- 3.6 Sampling
- 3.7 Other Effects
- 3.8 Accuracy
- 3.9 Summary and Key Concepts
- Part II: Radiographic Imaging
- 4 Physics of Radiography
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Ionization
- 4.3 Forms of Ionizing Radiation
- 4.4 Nature and Properties of Ionizing Radiation
- 4.5 Attenuation of Electromagnetic Radiation
- 4.6 Radiation Dosimetry
- 4.7 Summary and Key Concepts
- 5 Projection Radiography
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Instrumentation
- 5.3 Image Formation
- 5.4 Noise and Scattering
- 5.5 Summary and Key Concepts
- 6 Computed Tomography
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 CT Instrumentation
- 6.3 Image Formation
- 6.4 Image Quality in CT
- 6.5 Summary and Key Points
- Part III: Nuclear Medicine Imaging
- 7 The Physics of Nuclear Medicine
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Nomenclature
- 7.3 Radioactive Decay
- 7.4 Modes of Decay
- 7.5 Statistics of Decay
- 7.6 Radiotracers
- 7.7 Summary and Key Concepts
- 8 Planar Scintigraphy
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Instrumentation
- 8.3 Image Formation
- 8.4 Image Quality
- 8.5 Summary and Key Concepts
- 9 Emission Computed Tomography
- 9.1 Instrumentation
- 9.2 Image Formation
- 9.3 Image Quality in SPECT and PET
- 9.4 Summary and Key Concepts
- Part IV: Ultrasound Imaging
- 10 The Physics of Ultrasound
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 The Wave Equation
- 10.3 Wave Propagation
- 10.4 Doppler Effect
- 10.5 Beam Pattern Formation and Focusing
- 10.6 Summary and Key Concepts
- 11 Ultrasound Imaging Systems
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Instrumentation
- 11.3 Pulse-Echo Imaging
- 11.4 Transducer Motion
- 11.5 Ultrasound Imaging Modes
- 11.6 Steering and Focusing
- 11.7 Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging
- 11.8 Image Quality
- 11.9 Summary and Key Concepts
- Part V: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 12 Physics of Magnetic Resonance
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Microscopic Magnetization
- 12.3 Macroscopic Magnetization
- 12.4 Precession and Larmor Frequency
- 12.5 Transverse and Longitudinal Magnetization
- 12.6 RF Excitation
- 12.7 Relaxation
- 12.8 The Bloch Equations
- 12.9 Spin Echoes
- 12.10 Basic Contrast Mechanisms
- 12.11 Summary and Key Concepts
- 13 Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 13.1 Instrumentation
- 13.2 MRI Data Acquisition
- 13.3 Image Reconstruction
- 13.4 Image Quality
- 13.5 Advanced Contrast Mechanisms
- 13.6 Summary and Key Concepts
- Index
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