Physics for Medical Imaging Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIX

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2. General Imaging and Ultrasound Principle

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XIX

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   2. FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF DIGITAL IMAGING

      • KARL-FRIEDRICH KAMM

      Pages 3-22

3. Magnetic Resource Imaging

   1. Front Matter

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   2. PRINCIPLE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE

      • MARTIN O. LEACH

      Pages 25-36

   3. NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE (NMR)

      • EMILE M. HILTBRAND

      Pages 37-47

   4. MRI – QUALITY ASSURANCE

      • FRANÇOIS LAZEYRAS

      Pages 49-53

   5. ADVANCED MRI APPLICATIONS

      • JEFFRY R. ALGER, ANDREW J. FREW

      Pages 55-68

   6. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL MRI

      • JEFFRY R. ALGER, ANDREW J. FREW

      Pages 69-81

   7. APPLICATIONS OF CLINICAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY

      • JEFFRY R. ALGER

      Pages 83-88

   8. CLINICAL MRI

      • ALESSANDRO ALIMENTI

      Pages 89-97

4. Ultrasound Imaging

   1. Front Matter

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   2. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ULTRASOUND

      • TERESA M. ROBINSON

      Pages 101-110

   3. ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS

      • FRANCO BERTORA

      Pages 111-121

   4. ULTRASONIC DOPPLER MODES

      • PIERO TORTOLI, PAOLO FIDANZATI, BASSI LUCA

      Pages 123-136

   5. ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS

      • CHRISTIAN CACHARD, OLIVIER BASSET

      Pages 137-150

   6. SPECKLE FORMATION, ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING APPLIED TO ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION

      • JOHAN M. THIJSSEN

      Pages 151-176

   7. PERFORMANCE TESTING OF MEDICAL ECHO/DOPPLER EQUIPMENT

      • J.M. THIJSSEN, M.C. VAN WIJK, M.H.M. CUYPERS

      Pages 177-195

   8. ULTRASONIC ELASTOGRAPHY

      • RÉMI SOUCHON

      Pages 197-209

   9. ULTRASOUND AND THERAPY

      • CYRIL LAFON

      Pages 211-226

The Nato Advanced Study Institute ASI 981171 was organised at the European Scientific Institute of Archamps (ESI , Archamps France) from October 26 to November 8, 2005. Everyy ear in autumn ESI organises the European School of Medical Physics, which covers a large spectrum of topics, ranging from Medical Imaging to Radiotherapy, over a period of five weeks. Thanks to the Cooperative Science and Technologys ub programme of th e NATO Science Division, the first two weeks were replaced this year by the ASI course dedicated to “Optimising Detectors, Imaging & Computing Technologies from Nuclear Physics in General to Secur ity Applications”. This allowed the participation of experts and students fr om 20 different countries, with diverse cultural background and professional experience (Africa, America, Asia, and Europe). A further positive outcome of NATO ASI participation is the publication of this book, which contains the lectures series contributed by speakers during the ASI weeks. We hope it will be a reference book in Medical Imaging, addressing an audience of young medical physicists everywhere in the world, who are wishing to review the physics foundations of the relevant technologies, catch up with the state of the art and look ahead into future developments in their field. The ASI course was structured in two pa rts, defined by the use or absence of ionising radiation in the medical imaging techniques of interest.

• X-ray
• computed tomography (CT)
• imaging
• magnetic resonance
• positron emission tomography
• tissue
• tomography
• ultrasound
• Ultrasonography

• European Scientific Institute, Archamps, France

  Yves Lemoigne, Alessandra Caner, Ghita Rahal

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