Build the foundation necessary for the practice of CT scanning with Computed Tomography: Physical Principles, Patient Care, Clinical Applications, and Quality Control, 5th Edition. Written to meet the varied requirements of radiography students and practitioners, this two-color text provides comprehensive coverage of the physical principles of computed tomography and its clinical applications. The clear, straightforward approach is designed to improve your understanding of sectional anatomic images as they relate to computed tomography and facilitate communication between CT technologists and other medical personnel.
- Chapter outlines and chapter review questions
- help you focus your study time and master content.
- NEW! Three additional chapters
reflect the latest industry CT standards in imaging: Radiation Awareness and Safety Campaigns in Computed Tomography, Patient Care Considerations, and - Artificial Intelligence: An Overview of Applications in Health and Medical Imaging.
- UPDATED! More than 509 photos and line drawings visually clarify key concepts.
- UPDATED! The latest information keeps you up to date on advances in volume CT scanning; CT fluoroscopy; and multislice applications like 3-D imaging, CT angiography, and virtual reality imaging (endoscopy).
Chapter 1: CT-An Overview
Chapter 2: Digital Image Processing
Chapter 3: Physical Principles of CT
Chapter 4: Data Acquisition
Chapter 5: Image Reconstruction Overview
Chapter 6: Iterative Reconstruction Basics
Chapter 7: Basic Instrumentation
Chapter 8: Image Post Processing and Visualization tools
Chapter 9: Image Quality
Chapter 10: Radiation Dose in Computed tomography
NEW CHAPTER:
Chapter 11: Radiation Awareness and Safety Campaigns in CT
Chapter 11: Multi Slice CT-Physical Principles and Instrumentation
Chapter 12-Other Technical Applications in CT-Basic Principles
Chapter 13: 3-Dimensional CT-Basic Concepts
Chapter 14: PET/CT and SPECT/CT
NEW CHAPTER 15: Patient Care Considerations
Chapter 16: CT of the Head, Cerebral Vessels, Neck and Spine
Chapter 17: CT of the
Chapter 18: Pediatric CT
NEW CHAPTER 19: Cardiac CT: Physical Principles and Clinical Applications
NEW CHAPTER 20: Artificial Intelligence-Applications in CT
Chapter 21: Quality Control in CT
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Dr. Seeram has had more than 26 textbooks published to date, including Computed Tomography (Elsevier). These books have a world-wide distribution and several of them have been adopted by Schools of Medical Imaging all over the world for their educational programs. He was formerly the Program Head of the Medical Imaging Degree at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, where he worked for 38 years serving the Medical Imaging Education and Clinical Practice Communities.
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