Medical imaging

Solid-State Imaging with Charge-Coupled Devices covers the complete imaging chain: from the CCD's fundamentals to the applications.

This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive account of the imaging of scalp and calvarial lesions.

As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications.

Practical overview of techniques used in the management of pain in interventional radiology suites.

'Spatially Resolved Magnetic Resonance' provides comprehensive and exhaustive coverage of the state of the art in magnetic resonance imaging.

The second edition of the well-received book updates the knowledge of clinical treatment, radiobiology, physics, and instrumentations to provide a comprehensive description of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).

This book provides up-to-date information on all aspects of radiotherapy for liver cancer, from the basic science to clinical practice.

This book provides both basic and advanced information on the clinical presentation, imaging findings and treatment of sinonasal diseases.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2012, held in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in July 2012.

In the hands of a skilled operator, ultrasound scanning is a simple and easy procedure.

The expanded and revised edition will split Chapter 4 to include more details and examples in FMRI, DTI, and DWI for MR image modalities.

This text is in no danger of incomplete identification of where it should fit in the bibliographical spectrum of radiological monographs.

This book provides an essential overview of the basic principles of imaging modalities, accompanied by examples of their applications in modern clinical and associated pre-clinical studies.

Chest sonography is an established procedure in the stepwise imaging diagnosis of pulmonary and pleural disease.

The book, written by expert pediatricians and radiologists, is divided into ten chapters covering neurology, cardiology, neonatology, interventional radiology, the abdomen, the musculoskeletal system, the thorax, the genitourinary system, the fetus, and emergencies.

This encyclopedic reference book on the treatment of intracranial aneurysms offers a case-based approach to the subject that has the benefit of fully reflecting the highly individual technical and clinical challenges encountered in aneurysm patients.

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Principles of Stereotactic Radiosurgery is the only contemporary, comprehensive reference for neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists using Gamma Knife and Linear Accelerator technology.

Mathematical morphology (MM) is a theory for the analysis of spatial structures.

For the ultrasound practitioner it is now more important than ever to have a rigorous understanding of fetal anatomy and development.

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Radiotherapy is one of the major treatment modalities utilised for the management of patients diagnosed with skin cancer.

This book covers emerging trends in signal processing research and biomedical engineering, exploring the ways in which signal processing plays a vital role in applications ranging from medical electronics to data mining of electronic medical records.

With 2300 radiological images dispersed throughout the text, this source provides an expansive armamentarium of case studies and examples showcasing both common and uncommon liver pathologies.

In spite of the remarkable progress that has been made against cancer, the battle is far from over.

Offers guidance on the use of ultrasonography in a clinical setting, covering benign and malignant gynecological disease and infertility.

Return to training (RTT) and return to play (RTP) decisions making process in football are currently based on expert's opinion.

This textbook embraces most aspects of gynaecological laparoscopy and hysteroscopy and it aims to present a comprehensive coverage of gynaecological minimal access surgeries with excellent medical illustrations.

Highlighting safe practice, this volume is essential reading for pediatric interventional radiologists and radiology trainees.

A practical manual that provides a succinct and clinically relevant reference of routine clinical epilepsy care.

This is a practical guide to pediatric vascular access.

The only book available on transesophageal echocardiography of the mitral valve, this impressive and highly illustrated text provides a concise yet in-depth analysis of the mitral valve from an experience of over 10,000 transesophageal echocardiograms performed by the authors.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This contributed volume focuses on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), and explores the ways in which signaling mechanisms at the biochemical, molecular, and cellular levels in the blood vessels (vascular) and heart contribute to the underlying causes of development and progression of the CVDs.

This unique workbook can be used as a stand-alone text or supplemental text for any course designed to enhance the work of radiologic technology students.

This state-of-the-art handbook, the third and final in a series that provides medical physicists with a comprehensive overview into the field of nuclear medicine, focuses on highlighting the production and application of radiopharmaceuticals.

In spring this year it will be 35 years since I began to study rotation technique as applied to radiology.

A succinct account of various routinely experienced pathologies and suitable images has been presented as approximately162 case studies.

Image-guided therapy (IGT) uses imaging to improve the localization and targeting of diseased tissue and to monitor and control treatments.

As minimally invasive therapies, endovascular embolization and chemo-embolization are now the first-choice palliative or curative therapeutic alternatives in oncology, traumatology, functional pathology, treatment of benign tumors, and management of post operative complications.

This book aims to be a complete guide to diagnose, manage, and treat rare lung diseases encountered by practicing pulmonologists and trainees.

The objective of this Brief is to provide a solution to the unsolved technical problem in segmentation for the automated bone age assessment system.

Radioembolization is a widely used treatment for non-resectable primary and secondary liver cancer.

This volume will cover what is known regarding the biology and treatment of CNS metastasis, including novel chapters such as the future of targeted therapies.

This book covers virtually all aspects of image formation in medical imaging, including systems based on ionizing radiation (x-rays, gamma rays) and non-ionizing techniques (ultrasound, optical, thermal, magnetic resonance, and magnetic particle imaging) alike.

Standard radiography of the chest remains one of the most widely used imaging modalities but it can be difficult to interpret.