This comprehensive publication covers all aspects of image formation in modern medical imaging modalities, from radiography, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography, to magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound. It addresses the techniques and instrumentation used in the rapidly changing field of medical imaging. Now in its fourth edition, this text provides the reader with the tools necessary to be comfortable with the physical principles, equipment, and procedures used in diagnostic imaging, as well as appreciate the capabilities and limitations of the technologies. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Preface	xv
Preface to the First Edition	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
1 Imaging in Medicine	1
2 Structure of Matter	11
3 Radioactive Decay	27
4 Interactions of Radiation	45
5 Production of X Rays	69
6 Radiation Quantity and Quality	91
7 Interaction of X and [gamma] Rays in the Body	117
8 Radiation Detectors for Quantitative Measurement	127
9 Accumulation and Analysis of Nuclear Data	143
10 Computers and Image Networking	161
11 Probability and Statistics	179
12 Instrumentation for Nuclear Imaging	197
13 Radiography	217
14 Fluoroscopy	235
15 Computed Tomography	251
16 Influences on Image Quality	265
17 Analytic Description of Image Quality	281
18 Visual Perception	289
19 Ultrasound Waves	303
20 Ultrasound Transducers	317
21 Ultrasound Instrumentation	331
22 Doppler Effect	343
23 Fundamentals of Magnetic Resonance	355
24 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy	367
25 Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Instrumentation, Bioeffects, and Site Planning	389
26 Experimental Radiobiology	403
27 Human Radiobiology	413
28 Protection from External Sources of Radiation	435
29 Protection from Internal Sources of Radiation	455
30 Future Developments in Medical Imaging	467
Appendix I Review of Mathematics	477
Appendix II Fourier Transform	483
Appendix III Multiples and Prefixes	485
Appendix IV Masses in Atomic Mass Units for Neutral Atoms of Stable Nuclides and a Few Unstable Nuclides	487
Answers to Selected Problems	491
Index	495

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