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Covering both physical as well as mathematical and algorithmic foundations, this graduate textbook provides the reader with an introduction into modern biomedical imaging and image processing and reconstruction. These techniques are not only based on advanced instrumentation for image acquisition, but equally on new developments in image processing and reconstruction to extract relevant information from recorded data. To this end, the present book offers a quantitative treatise of radiography, computed tomography, and medical physics. ContentsIntroductionDigital image processingEssentials of medical x-ray physicsTomographyRadiobiology, radiotherapy, and radiation protectionPhase contrast radiographyObject reconstruction under nonideal conditions

Title Biomedical imaging : principles of radiography, tomography and medical physics / Tim Salditt, Timo Aspelmeier, Sebastian Aeffner.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Berlin, [Germany]
Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter
Creation Date 2017
Notes Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
In English.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Digital image processing -- 3. Essentials of medical x-ray physics -- 4. Tomography -- 5. Radiobiology, radiotherapy, and radiation protection -- 6. Phase contrast radiography -- 7. Object reconstruction: nonideal conditions and noise -- Index
Series De Gruyter Graduate
Extent 1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, tables.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2017
National Library system number 997010709364305171
MARC RECORDS
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