Introduction to medical imaging [electronic resource] : physics, engineering, and clinical applications / Andrew Webb, Nadine Smith.

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"Covering the basics of X-rays, CT, PET, nuclear medicine, ultrasound and MRI, this textbook provides senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students with a broad introduction to medical imaging. Over 130 end-of-chapter exercises are included, in addition to solved example problems, which enabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Webb, Andrew (Andrew G.)
Other Authors:	Smith, Nadine, 1962-2010
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Diagnostic imaging. Medical physics.
Online Access:	Cambridge HE website textbooks complete collection: 2010 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink)
Variant Title:	Introduction to Medical Imaging: Physics, Engineering and Clinical Applications
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. General image characteristics, data acquisition and image reconstruction; 2. X-ray planar radiology and computed tomography; 3. Nuclear medicine: planar scintigraphy, SPECT and PET/CT; 4. Ultrasound imaging; 5. Magnetic resonance imaging.