Medical imaging

The book covers the latest updates in the application of infrared to biomedical sciences, a non-invasive, contactless, safe and easy approach imaging of skin and tissue temperatures.

What would make this book unique is its focus on the fetal central nervous system (CNS) ultrasound, encompassing the wide range of CNS anomalies and the need for in-depth knowledge in fetal brain and spine normal anatomy and related abnormalities.

This comprehensive book provides a detailed description of imaging techniques and findings in the detection, characterization, local staging and post-treatment tumors of the osseous spine.

This book will provide a concise, focused overview of methods of neurological examination, enabling a focused clinical approach for localization in patients with neurological disorders.

Clinicians have a variety of diagnostic methods available for evaluating a child with an arrhythmia.

This book details how, over the last 25 years, ultrasound examination as become an indispensable means of diagnosing salivary pathology.

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

Ultrasound (US) prenatal screening has been proposed as the most effective technique for Trisomy 21 early assessment.

This volume presents the proceedings of CLABIO 2015 - II Latin American Conference on Bioimpedance, held in Montevideo, Uruguay - September 30 - October 02, 2015.

The book covers challenging clinical radiological cases spanning the central nervous system, respiratory and cardiovascular systems, gastrointestinal system, genitourinary system, musculoskeletal system, as well as multi-organ cases in paediatric patients.

The book covers all the radiation safety aspects while working with unsealed radionuclides.

The book covers all aspects of one of the most advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques, namely Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Fractional Anisotropy (FA) values in early Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.

This book explains the exciting field of sonomyography (SMG), which makes it possible to use continuous signals detected by ultrasound images in real time to evaluate muscle functions.

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.

The book introduces readers to the basic principle of optical imaging technologies.

This book talks about photoplethysmography (PPG) techniques based on computer-aided data processing.

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.

This book presents non-linear image enhancement approaches to mammograms as a robust computer-aided analysis solution for the early detection of breast cancer, and provides a compendium of non-linear mammogram enhancement approaches: from the fundamentals to research challenges, practical implementations, validation, and advances in applications.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance (ICEBI 2019), held on June 9-14, in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

This book introduces the latest optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and computerized automatic image analysis techniques, and their applications in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases.

This book introduces and reviews all of the currently available methods being used for computational electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis, from the fundamentals through to the state-of-the-art.

This book reviews and discusses the development of self-assembled nanomaterials applied in biomedical fields.

This book highlights the latest advances in functional micro/nano imaging probes and their applications for biomedical imaging and therapy.

This book highlights the experimental investigations that have been carried out on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography (MRI & CT) images using state-of-the-art Computational Image processing techniques, and tabulates the statistical values wherever necessary.

This book explores the early-stage detection of cancer using polarized light.

The book covers the latest updates in the application of infrared to biomedical sciences, a non-invasive, contactless, safe and easy approach imaging of skin and tissue temperatures.

This book highlights recentfindings on and analysesconducted on signalsand images in the area of medicine.

This book surveys recent advances in theranostics based on magnetic nanoparticles, ultrasound contrast agents, silica nanoparticles and polymeric micelles.

The book covers special considerations in trauma care with chapters deliberating on the clinical management of trauma in a particular population group or situation, which is often not covered in other books on trauma care.

This new edition elucidates the radiation therapy protocols and procedures for the management of adult patients presenting with primary benign and malignant central nervous system tumors.

This book provides an updated comprehensive review of the FNA cytology of superficial neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease processes obtained by percutaneous ultrasound guidance.

This book provides an updated comprehensive review of the FNA cytology of superficial neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease processes obtained by percutaneous ultrasound guidance.

This book will provide a concise, focused overview of methods of neurological examination, enabling a focused clinical approach for localization in patients with neurological disorders.

The book provides sound knowledge of 3D imaging of dentofacial craniofacial region.

The book provides sound knowledge of 3D imaging of dentofacial craniofacial region.

This new edition elucidates the radiation therapy protocols and procedures for the management of adult patients presenting with primary benign and malignant central nervous system tumors.

This book concisely reviews our current understanding of hypoxia, molecular targeting, DNA repair, cancer stem cells, and tumor pathophysiology, while also discussing novel strategies for putting these findings into practice in daily clinical routine.

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

Pediatric CNS Tumors is a detailed review of childhood nervous system tumors with a particular emphasis on biological data and treatment algorithms for each tumor type.

Conformal radiation therapy represents a new challenge for radiation oncologists.

 Diagnostic sonography of the peripheral nervous system is an evolving specialty of musculoskeletal ultrasound.

Given that treatment with curative intent is possible in only one-half of cancer victims, and that such treatment frequently fails, the majority of patients with cancer will require relief of symptoms and signs caused by their disease.

A major breakthrough in the understanding of pelvic floor disorders has been achieved by the introduction of MRI into clinical research.

The aim of this book is to provide a uniquely comprehensive source of information on the entire field of radiation therapy physics.