Biomedical Imaging: Principles of Radiography, Tomography and Medical Physics

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· Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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358
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About this ebook

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.

Contents
Introduction
Digital image processing
Essentials of medical x-ray physics
Tomography
Radiobiology, radiotherapy, and radiation protection
Phase contrast radiography
Object reconstruction under nonideal conditions

About the author

Tilo Aspelmeier, Sebastian Aeffner, Tim Salditt, Universität Göttingen, Germany.

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