Medical Imaging: Essentials for Physicians
Anthony B. Wolbarst
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Description for Medical Imaging: Essentials for Physicians
Hardcover. This book is a concise, one-stop resource on medical imaging written for medical professionals, addressing a field of critical importance to them, in the language that they speak. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 177 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1084.
"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 ... Read more
- 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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470505700
SKU
V9780470505700
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Ref
99-50
About Anthony B. Wolbarst
Anthony Brinton Wolbarst, PhD, a physicist formerly at Harvard Medical School, the National Cancer Institute, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences, Division of Radiation Sciences and College of Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Radiology in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Patrizio Capasso, MD, is Professor and Division Chief of Vascular & ... Read more
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