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About The Book South Asian Edion of The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging Widely regarded as the cornerstone text in the field, The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, Fourth Edion, is a clear, concise, and thorough guide to the fundamental principles of medical imaging physics, radiaon protecon, and radiaon biology. Renowned medical physics experts from the University of California, Davis, provide up-to-date, readable informaon on the producon, characteriscs, and interacons of ionizing radiaon used in medical imaging and the imaging modalies in which they are used, including radiography, mammography, fluoroscopy, computed tomography, and nuclear medicine. The text also provides thorough coverage of the non-ionizing medical imaging modalies of MRI and ultrasound. This vibrant, fullcolor text is enhanced by more than 1,000 images, charts, and graphs, including hundreds of new illustraons. It's a must-have resource for medical imaging professionals, and teachers and students in medical physics and biomedical engineering, as well as radiology residents who are preparing for Core Exams.

Key Features:

Features a new introductory overview, plus new informaon on informacs-oriented concepts, mulsource and other x-ray tubes, new quality control procedures for digital radiography, digital breast tomosynthesis, dedicated breast CT, best pracces in minimizing fluoroscopy dose to paents and staff, dosimetry in x-ray imaging, 3T and 7T MRI, MR arfacts and soluons, nuclear cardiology and whole-body PET imaging, and much more.

Provides clear and concise explanaons of the basic science important to nuclear imaging, including the nature and producon of radioacvity, internal dosimetry and radiaon detecon and measurement.

Addresses topics common to all forms of diagnosc imaging, including image quality and medical informacs.

Includes updated NCRP recommendaons and NRC regulatory requirements, as well as Image Gently and other opmizaon efforts.

Provides complete coverage and current concepts in radiaon biology and radiaon protecon relevant to medical imaging.

Contains numerous full-color charts, tables, images and superb illustraons that reinforce central concepts.

An expansive and detailed appendix provides an up-to-date reference for radiological data, important definions and constants, typical adults and child age-specific dose esmates for a wide variety of imaging exams in radiology and nuclear medicine and much more.