Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers From Signals to Images /

• Main Author: Chappell, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Biomedical engineering.; Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Radiology.; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Imaging / Radiology.

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...

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.