Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Diagnostic Imaging - General

Evidence-Based Imaging is a user-friendly guide to the evidence-based science and merit defining the appropriate use of medical imaging in both adult and pediatric patients. Chapters are divided into major areas of medical imaging and cover the most prevalent diseases in developed countries, including the four major causes of mortality and morbidity: injury, coronary artery disease, cancer, and cerebrovascular disease. This book gives the reader a clinically-relevant overview of evidence-based imaging, with topics including epidemiology, patient selection, imaging...

Proton beam therapy is an emerging technology with promise of revolutionizing the treatment of cancer. While nearly half of all patients diagnosed with cancer in the US receive radiation therapy, the majority is delivered via electron accelerators, where photons are used to irradiate cancerous tissue. Because of the physical properties of photon beams, photons may deposit energy along their entire path length through the body. On the other hand, a protonbeamdirected ata tumor travels in a straight trajectory towards its target, gives off most of its energy at a defined depth called the...

Designed specifically for orthopedic surgeons
involved in the review of musculoskeletal MRIs, this book enables clinicians to
develop a systematic approach to the interpretation of MRI studies. It provides
clinicians with a solid understanding of essential concepts, including the physics
of MRI, various pulse sequences available for obtaining an MRI, and
normal MRI anatomy and contains chapters on special considerations for
imaging articular cartilage and soft-tissue and bone tumors, as well as advanced
techniques such as MR arthrography and MR...

Breast Imaging will enable you to quickly
diagnose a full range of cases and to make sound clinical decisions for the
treatment of each patient in your care.

Features of Breast
Imaging

• Examples of critical can't-miss cases that must be accurately
  diagnosed to avert potential disaster in daily practice and on
  exams
• Clearly labeled, high-quality mammograms, ultrasounds and
  MRIs help you absorb key findings at-a-glance
• A scratch-off code
  in each book that provides a year of free access to a searchable online database
  of...

Now in its Second Edition, this thoroughly illustrated volume is a practical, problem-oriented "how-to" guide to performing and interpreting abdominal and pelvic MRI studies. Practical Guide to Abdominal and Pelvic MRI provides the necessary know-how for optimizing image quality and protocols and describes specific techniques, including MR angiography, MR cholangiopancreatography, MR urography, MRI of the gastrointestinal tract, and obstetrical MRI. A section on interpretation describes MRI appearances of 101 abdominal and pelvic abnormalities, presents differential diagnoses, and...

In general, image processing texts are intended for students of engineering and computer science, and there is little written at all on the specific requirements of medical image processing. Students of medical radiation science (Diagnostic radiography, Nuclear medicine, Radiation therapy) usually have minimal mathematical and computer science training and find the available texts incomprehensible. A text that explains the principles of image processing in minimally-mathematical language is needed for these students. Contrary to the claims of some textbook authors, the vast majority of...

The optimal use of magnetic resonance imaging poses a constant challenge as the technology is continually and rapidly advancing. This leaves the MR practitioner, beginner or experienced, in constant need of up-to-date, easily read and well illustrated material presenting the clinical constellation of pathologies as seen by an MRI scanner in such an effective way.
MRI of the Whole Body sets out to educate trainee and experienced radiologists, radiographers and clinicians regarding key sequences for optimal imaging of common pathologies, with simple explanations on the...