UID:
almahu_9949641584402882
Format:
1 online resource (151 pages).
ISBN:
9781351006767
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1351006762
Series Statement:
Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Ser.
Note:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Basic Physics -- 1.1 Transmission Intensity -- 1.2 HVL -- 1.3 K-Edge -- 1.4 Attenuation -- 1.5 Contrast -- 2 X-ray Production -- 2.1 X-ray Tube -- 2.2 Heat -- 2.3 Focal Spot Size -- 2.4 Bremsstrahlung -- 2.5 Effect of kV and mAs on Image Quality -- 2.6 X-ray Spectrum -- 2.7 X-ray Output -- 2.8 Optical Density, Contrast -- 2.9 X-ray Spectrum -- 2.10 High kV-Short Exposure -- 2.11 X-ray Spectrum -- 3 Screen Film Radiography -- 3.1 Hurter and Driffield (H&D) Curve -- 3.2 Radiographic Screens -- 3.3 Film Gamma and Speed -- 3.4 Contrast -- 3.5 Screen Film -- 3.6 Grid -- 3.7 Grid Ratio -- 3.8 Rare Earth Screens -- 3.9 Intensifying Screen -- 4 Digital Radiography -- 4.1 Characteristic Curves of Computed Radiography vs. Screen Film Radiography -- 4.2 Direct and Indirect Flat Panel Detectors -- 4.3 Photon Yield -- 4.4 Image Storage -- 4.5 Grey Scale -- 4.6 Soft Copy Reporting -- 4.7 Grey Scale -- 4.8 Computed Radiography -- 4.9 Exposure Index and Deviation Index -- 5 Image Quality -- 5.1 Quality Assurance -- 5.2 Contrast -- 5.3 Line Spread Function -- 5.4 Geometric Penumbra -- 5.5 Contrast with Relative Scatter -- 5.6 Resolution -- 5.7 Spatial Resolution -- 5.8 Modulation Transfer Function -- 5.9 Contrast-Detail -- 5.10 Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve -- 5.11 Filter Kernel -- 5.12 Nyquist Criterion -- 6 Mammography -- 6.1 Target-Filter -- 6.2 Breast Compression -- 6.3 Screen Film and Digital Receptor -- 6.4 Mammography X-Ray Tube -- 6.5 Higher kVp Technique -- 6.6 Magnification Radiography -- 6.7 Compression and Image Quality -- 6.8 Mammography Quality Control -- 6.9 Anode Angle -- 7 Fluoroscopy -- 7.1 Image Intensifier -- 7.2 Fluorescent Screens -- 7.3 Charge-Coupled Device -- 7.4 Artefact.
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7.5 Digital Subtraction Angiography -- 7.6 Noise -- 7.7 Biplane Angiography -- 7.8 Post-Processing Techniques -- 7.9 Fluoroscopic Image Quality -- 7.10 Patient Dose Reduction -- 7.11 Kerma Area Product (KAP) -- 7.12 Interventional Reference Point -- 8 Computed Tomography -- 8.1 Spiral CT -- 8.2 Noise -- 8.3 CT Number -- 8.4 Dual Energy CT -- 8.5 Partial Volume Effect -- 8.6 Pitch -- 8.7 Table Speed -- 8.8 Spatial Resolution -- 9 Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- 9.1 Nuclear Spin -- 9.2 Precession -- 9.3 Gyromagnetic Ratio -- 9.4 Larmor Frequency -- 9.5 MRI Images -- 9.6 Longitudinal Relaxation -- 9.7 Signal to Noise Ratio and Spatial Resolution -- 9.8 Magnetic Field Gradient -- 9.9 T2 and T2* -- 9.10 Spin -- 9.11 Artefact -- 9.12 T2* -- 9.13 T1 -- 9.14 Slice Thickness -- 9.15 Field of View -- 9.16 Signal to Noise Ratio -- 9.17 Spin Echo Pulse -- 9.18 Inversion Recovery -- 9.19 Acquisition Time -- 9.20 Chemical Shift Artefact -- 9.21 Specific Absorption Rate -- 10 Ultrasound -- 10.1 Axial Resolution and Lateral Resolution -- 10.2 Artefacts -- 10.3 Angle of Transmission -- 10.4 Reflection Coefficients -- 10.5 Doppler Ultrasound -- 10.6 Ultrasound Transducer -- 10.7 Attenuation -- 10.8 Ultrasound Attenuation -- 10.9 Q Factor -- 10.10 Contrast -- 10.11 Transducer Selection -- 10.12 Ultrasound Safety -- 11 Radiation Protection and Radiobiology -- 11.1 Ionisation Chamber -- 11.2 Kerma Area Product -- 11.3 Diagnostic Reference Level (DRL) -- 11.4 Shielding 1 -- 11.5 Personal Dosimetry -- 11.6 Effective Dose -- 11.7 Cell Survival -- 11.8 Tissue Injuries -- 11.9 Shielding 2 -- 11.10 Occupational Dose -- References.
Additional Edition:
Print version Ng, Kwan-Hoong Problems and Solutions in Medical Physics : Diagnostic Imaging Physics Milton : Chapman and Hall/CRC,c2018 ISBN 9781138542587
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351006781
