Preface ........................................................ ix
List of participants ......................................... xiii
Photographs ................................................... xix
Part I General Imaging and Ultrasound Principle
Fundamental aspects of digital imaging .......................... 3
K.-F. Kamm
Part II Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Principle of magnetic resonance ................................ 25
M.O. Leach
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) ............................... 37
E.M. Hiltbrand
MRI - quality assurance ........................................ 49
F. Lazeyras
Advanced MRI applications ...................................... 55
J.R. Alger and A.J. Frew
Physiological and functional MRI ............................... 69
J.R. Alger and A.J. Frew
Applications of clinical magnetic resonance spectroscopy ....... 83
J.R. Alger
Clinical MRI ................................................... 89
A. Alimenti
Part III Ultrasound Imaging
Basic principles of ultrasound ................................ 101
Т.М. Robinson
Ultrasound transducer ......................................... 111
F. Bertora
Ultrasonic Doppler modes ...................................... 123
P. Tortoli, P. Fidanzati, and L. Bassi
Ultrasound contrast agents .................................... 137
C. Cachard and O. Basset
Speckle formation, analysis and processing applied to
ultrasound tissue characterization ............................ 151
J.M. Thijssen
Performance testing of medical echo/Doppler equipment ......... 177
J.M. Thijssen, M.C. van Wijk, M.H.M. Cuypers
Ultrasonic elastography ....................................... 197
R. Souchon
Ultrasound and therapy ........................................ 211
C. Lafon
Ultrasound image post-processing - application
to segmentation ............................................... 227
O. Basset and C. Cachard
Intravascular imaging ......................................... 241
N. De Jong, N. Bom, J. Schaar, D. Goertz,
M. Frijlink, A.F.W. van der Steen
Early, recent and future applications of echocardiography ..... 253
N. DeJong, N. Bom, A.F.W. van der Steen, J. RTC Roelandt
Part IV Nuclear Medicine Techniques
Isotopes in medicine .......................................... 267
G.-J. Beyer
Electronics signal processing for medical imaging ............. 273
R. Turchetta
Emission tomography ........................................... 277
R.J. Ott
Data acquisition and processing in radioisotope imaging ....... 297
R.J. Ott
Evaluation of image quality ................................... 311
P.F. Sharp
Advances in PET and SPECT ..................................... 321
A. Todd-Pokropek
Positron emission tomography application to drug
development and research ...................................... 341
P.A. Salvadori
Part V Digital Imaging
Physical principles of mammography ............................ 355
D.R. Dance
Computed tomography ........................................... 367
I. Castellano and J. Geleijns
Image reconstruction algorithms in positron emission
tomography .................................................... 381
C. Comtat
Quality control in mammography ................................ 389
A. Noel
Patient dose in diagnostic radiology .......................... 397
A. Noel
Color Section ................................................. 405
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