Medical imaging. From techniques to medical application (Q4935944)

This is a textbook useful for students in physics, computer science, electrical engineering, and medicine. It starts with the presentation of the X-ray technique and continues with charge coupled devices, modulation transfer functions, detective quantum efficiency, noise equivalent quanta, digital subtraction angiography, coronary angiography, electronic portal imaging devices, as well as the use of Monte Carlo simulation. Next, we have the presentation of Fourier transformations and the case of the fast-Fourier-transformations. Using system theory, the following notions are given: Point spread function, transfer function, modulation transfer function, noise power spectrum, closing operator, region of interest and region-growing. We can also find multi-modality-imaging and information systems in medicine, picture archiving and communication systems, radiology information systems, hospital information systems, digital imaging and communication in medicine. Other chapters contain tomography, dosimetry, thermography, endoscopy, as well as saturation recovery, multi-slice-technique, echo-planar imaging and the steady state case.