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  title info:
    title: Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers
    sub title: From Signals to Images
  name:
    name part: Chappell, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 169 p. online resource.
  abstract: This introduction to medical imaging introduces all of the major medical imaging techniques in wide use in both medical practice and medical research, including Computed Tomography, Ultrasound, Positron Emission Tomography, Single Photon Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers introduces fundamental concepts related to why we image and what we are seeking to achieve to get good images, such as the meaning of 'contrast' in the context of medical imaging. This introductory text separates the principles by which 'signals' are generated and the subsequent 'reconstruction' processes, to help illustrate that these are separate concepts and also highlight areas in which apparently different medical imaging methods share common theoretical principles. Exercises are provided in every chapter, so the student reader can test their knowledge and check against worked solutions and examples. The text considers firstly the underlying physical principles by which information about tissues within the body can be extracted in the form of signals, considering the major principles used: transmission, reflection, emission and resonance. Then, it goes on to explain how these signals can be converted into images, i.e., full 3D volumes, where appropriate showing how common methods of 'reconstruction' are shared by some imaging methods despite relying on different physics to generate the 'signals'. Finally, it examines how medical imaging can be used to generate more than just pictures, but genuine quantitative measurements, and increasingly measurements of physiological processes, at every point within the 3D volume by methods such as the use of tracers and advanced dynamic acquisitions. Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers will be of use to engineering and physical science students and graduate students with an interest in biomedical engineering, and to their lecturers.
  table of contents: What is Medical Imaging? -- Part I: From Signals... -- Basic Concepts -- Transmission: X-Rays -- Reflection : Ultrasound -- Emission: SPECT/PET -- Resonance: NMR -- Part II: ...To Images -- A Revision of Frequency Analysis -- Basic Concepts -- Timing-Based Reconstruction -- Back-Projection Reconstruction: X-Ray and PET/SPECT -- Fourier Reconstruction: MRI -- Part III: Functional and Physiological Imaging -- Contrast Agents -- Tracer Kinetics -- Examples of Tracer Kinetic Methods -- Other Physiological and Functional MRI Methods.
  note: by Michael Chappell.
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Signal processing
  subject:
    topic: Image processing
  subject:
    topic: Speech processing systems
  subject:
    topic: Radiology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
  subject:
    topic: Signal, Image and Speech Processing
  subject:
    topic: Imaging / Radiology
  classification: R856-R857
  classification: 610.28
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30511-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 191003
    record change date: 20191022131553.0
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