Medical Images: Formation, Handling and Evaluation

Medical imaging is a very important area in diagnostic (andincreasingly therapeutic) medicine. Many new techniques arebeing developed or extended which depend on digital methods.Although conventional x-radiographs still comprise the bulkof the medical images acquired in a hospital, digitalmethods such as computerized tomography and magneticresonance imaging are now often claimed to have a moresignificant clinical impact.This book is concerned with three aspects of such digitalimages: their formation, or how they can be acquired; theirhandling, or how they may be manipulated to increase theirclinical value; and their evaluation, or how their impactand value may be assessed.The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 comprises aseries of reviews in the general subject area written byauthorities in the field. Part 2 includes papers ontheoretical aspects: 3D images, reconstruction, perception,and image processing. Part 3includes papers on applicationsin nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance, andradiology.

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• Assisted by: Andrew E. Todd-Pokropek (Editor), A Viergever (Editor), A Viergever (Editor), Andre E Todd-Pokropek (Editor), Andrew E Todd-Pokropek (Editor), Max A. Viergever (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.12.2012
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
• EAN: 9783642778902
• ISBN: 978-3-642-77890-2
• Pages: 700
• Illustrations: IX, 700 p.
• Dimensions (packing): 17.8 x 24.3 x 3.9 cm
• Series: NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences > Vol.98, Nato ASI Subseries F: > .98, Nato ASI Series (closed) / Nato ASI Subseries F: (closed) > .98, NATO ASI Series > 98, NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences > 98, Nato ASI Subseries F: > 98