Foundations of Medical Imaging

Designed to provide those engaged in modern medical imaging with a coherent perspective of the entire discipline so that one protocol is no longer an isolated or independent mode of imaging from others, to wit: single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Introduces biomagnetic imaging as a third new modality. BASICS FOR MEDICAL IMAGING.

Mathematical Preliminaries for Image Processing.

Image Reconstruction from Projections in Two Dimensions.

Image Reconstruction from Projections--True Three-Dimensions andOther Related Techniques.

IMAGING WITH IONIZING RADIATION.

Radiation Physics and Detectors.

X-Ray Computerized Tomography.

Nuclear Tomographic Imaging--Single Photon Emission ComputedTomography.

Tomographic Nuclear Medical Imaging--Positron EmissionTomography.

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Physics and Instrumentation.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Mathematics and Algorithms.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Methods and Techniques.

Flow and Flow-Related Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Chemical-Shift and Spectroscopic Imaging.

ULTRASOUND AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING.

Ultrasound Physics.

Ultrasonic Imaging.

BIOMAGNETIC IMAGING.

Neuromagnetic Imaging.

Index.

Zang-Hee Cho, Ph.D, is a Korean neuroscientist who developed the first Ring-PET scanner and the scintillation detector BGO. More recently, Cho developed the first PET-MRI fusion molecular imaging device for neuro-molecular imaging. Joie P. Jones is the author of Foundations of Medical Imaging, published by Wiley.