TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolbarst,Anthony B.
AU  - Capasso,Patrizio
AU  - Wyant,Andrew R.
TI  - Medical imaging: essentials for physicians 
SN  - 9781118480243
AV  - RC78.7.D53 W65 2013eb
U1  - 616.07/54 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Diagnostic imaging
KW  - Diagnostic Imaging
KW  - methods
KW  - Image Enhancement
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Edition statement from running title area; Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-402) and index; Sketches of the standard imaging modalities: different ways of creating visible contrast among tissues -- Image quality and dose: what constitutes a "good" medical image? -- Creating subject contrast in the primary X-ray image: projection maps of the body from differential attenuation of X-rays by tissues -- Twentieth-century (analog) radiography and fluoroscopy: capturing the X-ray shadow with a film cassette or an image intensifier tube plus electronic optical camera combination -- Radiation dose and radiogenic risk: ionization-induced damage to DNA can cause stochastic, deterministic, and teratogenic health effects--and how to protect against them -- Twenty-first century (digital) imaging: computer-based representation, acquisition, processing, storage, transmission, and analysis of images -- Digital planar imaging: replacing film and image intensifiers with solid state, electronic image receptors -- Computed tomography: superior sontrast in three-dimensional X-ray attenuation maps -- Nuclear medicine: contrast from differential uptake of a radiopharmaceutical by tissues -- Diagnostic ultrasound: contrast from differences in tissue elasticity or density across boundaries -- MRI in one dimension and with no relaxation: a gentle introduction to a challenging subject -- Mapping T1 and T2 relaxation in three dimensions -- Evolving and experimental modalities -- Suggested further reading -- Index
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118480267
ER  -