Radiology Books

New and Published Books

1. MRI

   Essentials for Innovative Technologies

   By Giuseppe Placidi

   MRI: Essentials for Innovative Technologies describes novel methods to improve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) beyond its current limitations. It proposes smart encoding methods and acquisition sequences to deal with frequency displacement due to residual static magnetic field inhomogeneity,...

   Published May 1st 2012 by CRC Press
2. Correction Techniques in Emission Tomography

   Edited by Mohammad Dawood, Xiaoyi Jiang, Klaus Schäfers

   Series: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

   Written by an interdisciplinary team of medical doctors, computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians, Correction Techniques in Emission Tomography presents various correction methods used in emission tomography to generate and enhance images. It discusses the techniques from a...

   Published April 26th 2012 by CRC Press
3. Linear and Chiral Dichroism in the Electron Microscope

   Edited by Peter Schattschneider

   This book describes energy loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD), a phenomenon in energy loss spectroscopy discovered in 2006. EMCD is the equivalent of XMCD but is based on fast probe electrons in the electron microscope. A spatial resolution of 2 nm has been demonstrated, and the lattice-resolved...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Pan Stanford Publishing
4. Targeted Molecular Imaging

   Edited by Michael J. Welch, William C. Eckelman

   Series: Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

   Targeted Molecular Imaging covers the development of novel diagnostic approaches that use an imaging probe and agent to noninvasively visualize cellular processes in normal and disease states. It discusses the concept, development, preclinical studies, and, in many cases, translation to the clinic...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Taylor & Francis
5. Image-Guided Radiation Therapy

   Edited by J. Daniel Bourland, Ph.D

   Series: Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

   Image-Guided Radiation Therapy presents key image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) technologies for external beam radiotherapy. The book explores the decades-long technological developments that have occurred in the realm of image-guided conformal, customized radiation treatment. Expert authors,...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Taylor & Francis
6. Physiology, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering

   Edited by Andrew Wood

   Series: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

   Physiology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering provides a multidisciplinary understanding of biological phenomena and the instrumentation for monitoring these phenomena. It covers the physical phenomena of electricity, pressure, and flow along with the adaptation of the physics of the phenomena...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
7. Magnetic Nanoparticles

   From Fabrication to Clinical Applications

   Edited by Nguyen TK Thanh

   Offering the latest information in magnetic nanoparticle (MNP) research, Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Fabrication to Clinical Applications provides a comprehensive review, from synthesis, characterization, and biofunctionalization to clinical applications of MNPs, including the diagnosis and...

   Published January 31st 2012 by CRC Press
8. Adaptive Motion Compensation in Radiotherapy

   Edited by Martin J. Murphy

   Series: Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

   External-beam radiotherapy has long been challenged by the simple fact that patients can (and do) move during the delivery of radiation. Recent advances in imaging and beam delivery technologies have made the solution—adapting delivery to natural movement—a practical reality. Adaptive Motion...

   Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press
9. Proton Therapy Physics

   Edited by Harald Paganetti

   Series: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

   Proton Therapy Physics goes beyond current books on proton therapy to provide an in-depth overview of the physics aspects of this radiation therapy modality, eliminating the need to dig through information scattered in the medical physics literature. After tracing the history of proton therapy,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by CRC Press
10. Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury

    Postmortem CT Scanning

    By Michael P. Burke

    Practitioners of forensic medicine have various tools at their disposal to determine cause of death, and today’s computed tomography (CT) can provide valuable clues if images are interpreted properly. Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury: Postmortem CT Scanning is a guide for...

    Published December 5th 2011 by CRC Press