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The essential physics of medical imaging / Jerrold T. Bushberg ... [et al.]. - 3rd ed. - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2012. - xii, 1030 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to medical imaging -- Radiation and the atom -- Interaction of radiation with matter -- Image quality -- Imaging informatics -- X-ray production, X-ray tubes, and generators -- Radiography -- Mammography -- Fluoroscopy -- Computed tomography -- X-ray dosimetry in projection imaging and CT -- Nuclear magnetic resonance -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- Ultrasound -- Radioactivity and nuclear transformation -- Radionuclide production and radiopharmaceuticals -- Radiation detection and measurement -- Nuclear imaging using the scintillation camera -- Nuclear tomography -- Radiopharmaceutical dosimetry -- Radiation biology -- Radiation protection.

ISBN: 9780781780575

LCCN: 2011004310

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Diagnostic imaging.
Medical physics.
Diagnostic Imaging--methods.

LC Class. No.: RC78.7.D53 / E87 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 616.07/54

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WN 200