Published: Delmar/Cengage Learning, 2013
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xxxi, 800 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Contents:
“…Unit 4: Analyzing The Image: -- Imaging Process -- Imaging process -- Professional imaging standards -- Analytical process -- Acceptance limits -- Density / Image Receptor Exposure: -- Assessing density/IR exposure -- Effects on image appearance -- Factors affecting density/IR -- Exposure -- Contrast: -- Assessing contrast -- Image contrast -- Evaluating contrast -- Factors affecting contrast -- Recorded Detail: -- Assessing recorded detail -- Effects on image appearance -- Factors affecting recorded -- Detail -- Distortion: -- Assessing distortion -- Factors affecting size distortion -- Factors affecting shape distortion -- Effect on image appearance --
Art Of Image Critique: -- Implementing imaging standards -- Identifying an imaging problem -- Effective image critique method -- Applying the image critique method -- Quality Management: -- Quality assurance and quality
control -- Purchasing equipment -- Monitoring equipment performance -- Ancillary equipment -- PACS systems -- Repeat-image studies -- Troubleshooting -- Unit 5: Comparing Exposure Systems: -- Exposure Systems: -- Exposure system selection -- Establishing an exposure system -- Establishing fixed kilovoltage exposure systems -- Establishing a variable kilovoltage peak exposure system -- Automatic Exposure
Controls: -- Ionization chambers -- Positioning skills -- Exposure Conversion Problems: -- Standard conversion relationships and tables -- Solving complex exposure problems -- Unit 6: Special Imaging Systems And Modalities: -- Mobile Radiography: -- Special patient considerations -- Special radiation protection considerations -- Types of equipment -- Special technical factor selection considerations -- Fluoroscopy: -- Historical development -- Fluoroscopic uses -- Types of equipment -- Fluoroscopic X-Ray tubes -- Image intensification tubes -- Image quality -- Video viewing systems -- Digital fluoroscopy -- Recording the fluoroscopic image -- Mobile fluoroscopic equipment -- Radiation protection during fluoroscopy -- Tomography And Digital Tomosynthesis: -- Tomographic principle -- Tomographic quality -- Types of motion -- Digital Tomosynthesis -- Tomographic procedures -- Mammography: -- Historical development -- Generator characteristics -- X-Ray tube -- Accessories -- Resolution -- Digital mammography -- Quality
control -- Bone Densitometry: -- History and overview -- Bone science -- Osteoporosis -- WHO diagnostic criteria -- DXA principles and instrumentation -- Scan acquision and analysis -- Femur -- Spine -- Forearm -- Quality
control -- Radiation safety and protection -- Vascular Imaging Equipment: -- History of vascular imaging -- Digital image acquisition -- Modes of digital image -- Acquisition -- Image post-processing -- C-arm assembly -- Angiographic tables -- Contrast medium injection -- Devices -- Quality
control -- Computed Tomography: -- Invention of computed tomography -- Scanner generations -- Components of a CT unit -- CT numbers (Hounsfield Units) -- Image reconstruction -- Image quality -- Scanning procedures -- Artifacts -- Radiation protection -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging: -- History -- Instrumentation -- MRI physics -- MRI -- MR safety --
Nuclear Medicine And PET Scanning: --
Nuclear physics -- Radioactive decay -- Radiochemistry and radiopharmaceuticals -- Imaging instrumentation -- Positron emission tomography (PET) -- Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT imaging -- Nonimaging instrumentation -- Radiation protection -- Clinical applications -- Radiation Therapy: -- Historical overview -- Consultation -- Treatment planning -- Treatment -- Specialized treatments and units -- Diagnostic Medical Sonography: -- Introduction -- Sound waves -- Attenuation -- Range -- Field -- Doppler -- Harmonics -- Transducer and components -- Instrumentation -- Appendix A: On a new kind of rays -- Appendix B: Answers to case studies -- Appendix C: Epigraph sources and credits -- Glossary -- Index.…”
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