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**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Radiologic Technology**
Develop the skills you need to produce diagnostic-quality medical images!
Bushong’s Radiologic Science for Technologists, 13th Edition, provides a solid foundation in the concepts of medical imaging and digital radiography. Featuring hundreds of radiographs and illustrations, this comprehensive text helps you learn how to make informed decisions regarding technical factors, image quality, and radiation safety for both patients and providers. With updates reflecting the latest ARRT
® guidelines, including shielding practices and streamlined physics and math sections focused on key concepts, this edition equips you with the knowledge needed to succeed on the certification exam and excel in clinical settings.
- NEW! Chapters on artificial intelligence and quantum computing help you stay abreast of key technological changes.
- NEW! Streamlined physics and math sections focus on the content you need to know to prepare for the ARRT exam, while also providing the background you need to perform well in the clinical environment
- UPDATED! Content reflects the latest ARRT guidelines, including the latest released shielding guidelines
- Broad coverage of radiologic science topics includes radiologic physics, imaging, radiobiology, and radiation protection. Special topics include mammography, fluoroscopy, spiral computed tomography, and cardiovascular interventional procedures
- Strong pedagogy, including objectives, key terms, outlines, chapter introductions, and summaries, helps you organize information and ensure that you understand what is most important in every chapter
- Quick-reference information, including formulas, conversion tables, abbreviations, and more, provides easy access to frequently used information
- End-of-chapter questions, such as definition exercises, short answer, and calculations, offer valuable review opportunities
- Key terms are bolded and defined at first mention in the text and are included in an expanded glossary to ensure you understand key terms as they are used in discussions of important concepts
- Math formulas are highlighted in special color boxes for quick reference
- Important concepts boxes are denoted with a penguin icon
- Evolve companion website provides answers to challenge questions, answers to workbook questions, an image collection, and review questions to reinforce your understanding of key content
List of contents
PART I: RADIOLOGIC PHYSICS 1. Essential Concepts of Radiologic Science
2. Basic Physics Primer
3. The Structure of Matter
4. Electromagnetic Energy
5. Electricity, Magnetism, and Electromagnetism
PART II: X-RADIATION 6. The X-ray Imaging System
7. The X-ray Tube
8. X-ray Production
9. X-ray Emission
10. X-ray Interaction With Matter
PART III: X-RAY IMAGING 11. Computed Radiography
12. Digital Radiography
13. Digital Radiographic Technique
14. Image Acquisition
15. Scatter Radiation
16. Digital Image Descriptors and Evaluation
17. Radiographic Artifacts
PART IV: ADVANCED MEDICAL IMAGING 18. Mammography
19. Fluoroscopy
20. Interventional Radiology
21. Computed Tomography
22. Tomosynthesis
PART V: MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY 23. Patient-Image Optimization
24. Viewing the Medical Image
25. Medical Image Informatics
26. Digital Display Device
PART VI: THE MEDICAL IMAGE 27. Imaging Science
28. Artificial Intelligence
29. Quantum Computing
30. Image Perception
PART VII: RADIOBIOLOGY 31. Human Biology
32. Fundamental Principles of Radiobiology
33. Molecular Radiobiology
34. Cellular Radiobiology
35. Deterministic Effects of Radiation
36. Stochastic Effects of Radiation
PART VIII: RADIATION PROTECTION 37. Health Physics
38. Designing for Radiation Protection
39. Radiography/Fluoroscopy Patient Radiation Dose
40. Computed Tomography Patient Radiation Dose
41. Patient Radiation Dose Management
42. Occupational Radiation Dose Management
About the author
Stewart C. Bushong is Professor of Radiologic Science at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.Elizabeth Shields is the Program Director, Radiologic Technology Program at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center
