Medical Imaging Physics

Preface.Preface to the First Edition.Acknowledgments.Imaging in Medicine. Structure of Matter. Radioactive Decay. Interactions of Radiation. Production of X Rays. Radiation Quantity and Quality. Interaction of X and y Rays in the Body. Radiation Detectors for Quantitative Measurement. Accumulation and Analysis of Nuclear Data. Computers and Image Networking. Probability and Statistics. Instrumentation for Nuclear Imaging. Radiography. Fluoroscopy. Computed Tomography. Influences of Image Quality. Analytic Description of Image Quality. Visual Perception. Ultrasound Waves. Ultrasound Transducers. Ultrasound Instrumentation. Doppler Effect. Fundamentals of Magnetic Resonance. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy. Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Instrumentation, Bioeffects, and Site Planning. Experimental Radiobiology. Human Radiobiology. Protection from External Sources of Radiation. Protection from Internal Sources of Radiation. Future Developments in Medical Imaging. Appendix I: Review of Mathematics. Appendix II: Fourier Transform. Appendix III: Multiples and Prefixes. Appendix IV: Masses in Atomic Mass Units for Neutral Atoms of Stable Nuclides and a Few Unstable Nuclides. Answers to Selected Problems. Index.

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