Medical Physics: Physical Aspects of Diagnostics and Therapeutics

✍ Scribed by Hartmut Zabel

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 444
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The updated edition of the second of three volumes on Medical Physics presents modern physical methods for medical diagnostics. It provides a solid background on imaging techniques that use non-ionizing probes (ultrasound, endoscopy including CLE and OCT, MRI) and imaging techniques that use ionizing radiation (X-ray radiography, CT, SPECT, PET). Radiation sources, interactions of radiation with matter and radiation protection for x-rays, -rays, protons and neutrons are presented. Some of these topics are also relevant to the therapeutic applications presented in Volume 3. NEW: highlighted boxes emphasize specifi c topics; math boxes explain more advanced mathematical issues; each chapter concludes with a summary of the key concepts, questions, a self-assessment of the acquired competence and exercises. The appendix provides answers to questions and solutions to exercises.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part A: Diagnostics without ionizing radiation
1 Sonography
2 Endoscopy
3 Magnetic resonance imaging
Part B: X-ray and nuclear methods
4 X-ray sources and generators
5 Nuclei and isotopes
6 Interaction of radiation with matter
7 Dosimetry
Part C: Radiography
8 X-ray radiography
9 Scintigraphy (SPE and SPECT)
10 Positron emission tomography
Appendix
11 Answers to questions
12 Solutions to exercises
13 List of acronyms (used in all three volumes)
14 Selection of fundamental physical constants, conversions, and relationships
15 List of scientists named in this volume
16 Glossary
17 Index of terms