Medical Images Formation, Handling and Evaluation [Paperback]

Medical imaging is a very important area in diagnostic (andincreasingly therapeutic) medicine. Many new techniques arebeing developed or extended which depend on digital methods.Although conventional x-radiographs still comprise the bulkof the medical images acquired in a hospital, digitalmethods such as computerized tomography and magneticresonance imaging are now often claimed to have a moresignificant clinical impact.This book is concerned with three aspects of such digitalimages: their formation, or how they can be acquired; theirhandling, or how they may be manipulated to increase theirclinical value; and their evaluation, or how their impactand value may be assessed.The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 comprises aseries of reviews in the general subject area written byauthorities in the field. Part 2 includes papers ontheoretical aspects: 3D images, reconstruction, perception,and image processing. Part 3includes papers on applicationsin nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance, andradiology.Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on The Formation, Handling and Evaluation of Medical Images, held at Povoa de Varzim, Poortugal, September 12-23, 1988Medical imaging is a very important area in diagnostic (andincreasingly therapeutic) medicine. Many new techniques arebeing developed or extended which depend on digital methods.Although conventional x-radiographs still comprise the bulkof the medical images acquired in a hospital, digitalmethods such as computerized tomography and magneticresonance imaging are now often claimed to have a moresignificant clinical impact.This book is concerned with three aspects of such digitalimages: their formation, or how they can be acquired; theirhandling, or how they may be manipulated to increase theirclinical value; and their evaluation, lãÎ