Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to digital image processing
- 2 Radiography
- 3 X-ray computed tomography
- 4 Magnetic resonance imaging
- 5 Nuclear medicine imaging
- 6 Ultrasound imaging
- 7 Medical image analysis
- 8 Visualization for diagnosis and therapy
- Appendix A Linear system theory
- Appendix B Exercises
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to digital image processing
- 2 Radiography
- 3 X-ray computed tomography
- 4 Magnetic resonance imaging
- 5 Nuclear medicine imaging
- 6 Ultrasound imaging
- 7 Medical image analysis
- 8 Visualization for diagnosis and therapy
- Appendix A Linear system theory
- Appendix B Exercises
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book explains the applied mathematical and physical principles of medical imaging and image processing. It gives a complete survey, accompanied by more than 300 illustrations in color, of how medical images are obtained and how they can be used for diagnosis, therapy, and surgery.
It has been written principally as a course text on medical imaging intended for graduate and final-year undergraduate students with a background in physics, mathematics, or engineering. However, I have made an effort to make the textbook readable for biomedical scientists and medical practitioners as well by deleting unnecessary mathematical details, without giving up the depth needed for physicists and engineers. Mathematical proofs are highlighted in separate paragraphs and can be skipped without hampering a fluent reading of the text.
Although a large proportion of the book covers the physical principles of imaging modalities, the emphasis is always on how the image is computed. Equipment design, clinical considerations, and diagnosis are treated in less detail. Premature techniques or topics under investigation have been omitted.
Presently, books on medical imaging fall into two groups, neither of which is suitable for this readership. The first group is the larger and comprises books directed primarily at the less numerate professions such as physicians, surgeons, and radiologic technicians. These books cover the physics and mathematics of all the major medical imaging modalities, but mostly in a superficial way. They do not allow any real understanding of these imaging modalities. The second group comprises books suitable for professional medical physicists or researchers with expertise in the field.
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- Fundamentals of Medical Imaging , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009