The essential physics of medical imaging /
The text is a guide to the fundamental principles of medical imaging physics, radiation protection and radiation biology, with complex topics presented in the clear and concise manner and style for which these authors are known. Coverage includes the production, characteristics and interactions of i...
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
c2012.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Tapa Indice |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to medical imaging
- Radiation and the atom
- Interaction of radiation with matter
- Image quality
- Imaging informatics
- X-ray production, X-ray tubes, and generators
- Radiography
- Mammography
- Fluoroscopy
- Computed tomography
- X-ray dosimetry in projection imaging and CT
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Ultrasound
- Radioactivity and nuclear transformation
- Radionuclide production and radiopharmaceuticals
- Radiation detection and measurement
- Nuclear imaging using the scintillation camera
- Nuclear tomography
- Radiopharmaceutical dosimetry
- Radiation biology
- Radiation protection.
