Imaging for medicine. Volume 1, Nuclear medicine, ultrasonics, and thermography

The material in this volume was prepared and collected over the past four years with the growing realization that a technical revolution was in progress for diagnostic medicine. It became clear that for the wide variety of imaging instruments and methods finding their way into applications for research and clinical medicine, there was a scarcity of reference and text books for the scientist and engineer beginning in the field. Thus what began as a relatively small project for a single volume has grown into certainly two and probably three volumes to adequately cover the field. This first volume is expected to be followed within a few months by a second volume, dealing with diagnostic radiology, and within a year by a third volume, covering most other aspects of medicine that utilize spectra from the ultraviolet through the visible into the near-infrared. The chapters in this book are divided into three groups. The first group deals with nuclear medicine and includes Chapters 1-8. These chapters are arranged to begin with a broad introduction to the subject (Chapter 1) followed by a sequence of four chapters (Chapters 2-5) that provide an in-depth review of the imaging instrumentation developed for the field. Chapter 6 deals with "evaluation" of imaging device per­ formance, while Chapters 7 and 8 discuss two areas of considerable re­ search activity. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Basic Information on Routine Diagnosis in Nuclear Medicine....Pages 1-75 Scintillation Camera Collimators....Pages 77-87 Rectilinear Scanners....Pages 89-118 A Review of Gamma Camera Technology for Medical Imaging....Pages 119-163 Tomography....Pages 165-181 Quantitative Analysis of Minimum Detectable Uptake Ratios for Nuclear Medicine Imaging Systems....Pages 183-207 X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging....Pages 209-215 Coded-Aperture Imaging....Pages 217-311 Diagnostic Uses of Ultrasonic Imaging....Pages 313-357 Ultrasonic Imaging: Basic Principles....Pages 359-397 Medical Aspects of Thermography....Pages 399-418 Thermographic Instrumentation....Pages 419-441 General Infrared System Analysis....Pages 443-494 Back Matter....Pages 495-498