"Medical Imaging Physics" erscheint jetzt in der 4. komplett aktualisierten Auflage.

Der Band behandelt alle Aspekte bildgebender Verfahren in der modernen medizinischen Diagnostik - von der Radiographie, über die Fluorsokopie und Computertomographie bis hin zu Magnetresonanz und Ultraschall.

Hier erfahren Sie alles über die physikalischen Grundlagen, Ausrüstung und Verfahren der Bilddiagnostik, einschließlich ihrer Möglichkeiten und Grenzen.

Umfassend aktualisiert und verständlich dargestellt.

Behandelt werden u.a. digitale Röntgenbilder, digitale Fluoroskopie, Doppler-Sonographie, funktionale MRI und Spiralscan.

Mit Kapitelzusammenfassungen, einem Frage- und Antwortkatalog, Zusatzinformationen in seitlichen Textkästen zu historischen Aspekten sowie zu wichtigen Daten und Begriffen.

Enthält über 200 neue Abbildungen.

Dr. William Hendee has appointments as Senior Associate Dean and Vice President as well as Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Professor and Vice-Chair of Radiology; Professor of Radiation Oncology, Biophysics, Bioethics of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Hendee served for 20 years on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. For several years, he directed the Division of Radiological Sciences and for eight years served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology. In 1985, Dr. Hendee was recruited by the American Medical Association to the position of Vice President in charge of science and technology programs. Dr. Hendee is past president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and currently president of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering./p>

E. Russell Ritenour, Ph.D. is Professor and Chief of Physics, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School and Director of Graduate Studies in Biophysical Sciences and Medical Physics in the Graduate School. He served five years as Chair of the Committee on Education and Training of Medical Physicists in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and is chair of the Committee on Continuing Education for the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Educational Programs. He is author or co-author of over a dozen multi-media, web-based, and distance learning systems.