1st Edition
by Anthony B. Wolbarst (Author), Patrizio Capasso (Author), Andrew R. Wyant (Author)
"An excellent primer on medical
imaging for all members of the medical profession . . . including
non-radiological specialists. It is technically solid and filled with
diagrams and clinical images illustrating important points, but it is
also easily readable . . . So many outstanding chapters . . . The book
uses little mathematics beyond simple algebra [and] presents complex
ideas in very understandable terms."
―Melvin E. Clouse, MD,
Vice Chairman Emeritus, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center and Deaconess Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical
School
A well-known medical physicist and author, an
interventional radiologist, and an emergency room physician with no
special training in radiology have collaborated to write, in the
language familiar to physicians, an introduction to the technology and
clinical applications of medical imaging. It is intentionally brief and
not overly detailed, intended to help clinicians with very little free
time rapidly gain enough command of the critically important imaging
tools of their trade to be able to discuss them confidently with medical
and technical colleagues; to explain the general ideas accurately to
students, nurses, and technologists; and to describe them effectively to
concerned patients and loved ones. Chapter coverage includes:
- Introduction: Dr. Doe's Headaches
- Sketches of the Standard Imaging Modalities
- Image Quality and Dose
- Creating Subject Contrast in the Primary X-Ray Image
- Twentieth-Century (Analog) Radiography and Fluoroscopy
- Radiation Dose and Radiogenic Cancer Risk
- Twenty-First-Century (Digital) Imaging
- Digital Planar Imaging
- Computed Tomography
- Nuclear Medicine (Including SPECT and PET)
- Diagnostic Ultrasound (Including Doppler)
- MRI in One Dimension and with No Relaxation
- Mapping T1 and T2 Proton Spin Relaxation in 3D
- Evolving and Experimental Modalities
