Imaging Systems for Medical Diagnostics

Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Grundlagen, technischen Lösungen und Anwendungen bildgebender Systeme. Es ist ein Handbuch für Studenten, Medizinphysiker und Ingenieure, ebenso wie für Dozenten an Hoch- und Fachschulen. Für das Fachpersonal an Krankenhäusern und in Praxen dient es als grundlegende Informationsquelle. Die Anwendungen umfassen die Gebiete der Röntgendiagnostik, Computertomographie, nuklearmedizinische Diagnostik, Magnetresonanztomographie, Sonographie und molekulare Bildgebung. Einen zusätzlichen inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt bilden die Softwareplattform für bildgebende Systeme sowie Krankenhaus-Informationssysteme.

The book provides a comprehensive compilation of fundamentals, technical solutions and applications for medical imaging systems. It is intended as a handbook for students in biomedical engineering, for medical physicists, and for engineers working on medical technologies, as well as for lecturers at universities and engineering schools. For qualified personnel at hospitals, and physicians working with these instruments it serves as a basic source of information. This also applies for service engineers and marketing specialists.

The book starts with the representation of the physical basics of image processing, implying some knowledge of Fourier transforms. After that, experienced authors describe technical solutions and applications for imaging systems in medical diagnostics. The applications comprise the fields of X-ray diagnostics, computed tomography, nuclear medical diagnostics, magnetic resonance imaging, sonography, molecular imaging and hybrid systems. Considering the increasing importance of software based solutions, emphasis is also laid on the imaging software platform and hospital information systems.