Looking Within - How X Ray, Ct, Mri, Ultrasound, Other Medical Images Are Created,

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

1. From the Watching of Shadows
2. Shadows on X-Ray Film: Radiography / Mammography
3. Shadows on Television, Live: Fluoroscopy
4. Shadows in Computers: Going Digital
5. Slices of Life: Computed Tomography (CT)
6. Like Embers in the Dark: Nuclear Medicine
7. Shadows from Echoes: Ultrasound
8. A Watery Mirror: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
9. Epilogue: Looking Forward

Appendix A. Protons, Photons, and All That:
A Brief Review of Atoms and Radiation
Appendix B. More about MRI:
T 1 and Proton Spin Relaxation

Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

About the author

Anthony Brinton Wolbarst, a physicist formerly at Harvard Medical School and the National Cancer Institute, is currently at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Wolbarst is the author of Symmetry and Quantum Systems: An Introduction to Group Representations (1977) and Physics of Radiology (1993), and editor of Environment in Peril (1991).

Summary

This guide explains how the principal imaging devices work and how they help physicians save lives. It explains the medical technologies that might come to play important roles in the readers life, and for those who wish to explore the issues of the associated benefits, costs, and risks.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony B. Wolbarst, Anthony Brinton Wolbarst
• Assisted by: Anthony Brinton Wolbarst (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.1999
• EAN: 9780520211827
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21182-7
• No. of pages: 219
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / History, Family & health, History of Medicine, Health systems and services