Looking Within: How X-Ray, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, and Other Medical Images Are Created, and How They Help Physicians Save Lives
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish date: 10/01/1999
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Acknowledgments Preface 1. From the Watching of Shadows 2. Shadows on X-Ray Film: Radiography / Mammography 3. Shadows on Television, Live: Fluoroscopy 4. Shadows in Computers: Going Digital 5. Slices of Life: Computed Tomography (CT) 6. Like Embers in the Dark: Nuclear Medicine 7. Shadows from Echoes: Ultrasound 8. A Watery Mirror: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 9. Epilogue: Looking Forward Appendix A. Protons, Photons, and All That: A Brief Review of Atoms and Radiation Appendix B. More about MRI: T 1 and Proton Spin Relaxation Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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