Computed Tomography: Fundamentals, System Technology, Image Quality, ApplicationsThis book provides a comprehensive and user-friendly description of the theoretical and technical essentials of computed tomography (CT) for a wide readership. It treats in detail all characteristic parameters relevant for image quality and all performance features significant for clinical applications. Readers will thus be informed how to optimally use a CT system depending on their different diagnostic requirements. This includes a detailed discussion about the dose required and about dose measurement as well as how to reduce dose in CT. This book is intended for all those who work daily, regularly or even only occasionally with CT: doctors, technologists, engineers, service technicians and physicists. A glossary describes all the important technical terms in alphabetical order. |
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Probably a good introduction, but considering that Kalender is the inventor of helical CT, disappointingly vague.
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algorithms angle anode artifacts attenuation backprojection beam hardening clinical collimation computed tomography cone beam contrast contrast medium convolution kernel CT examinations CT images CT scan CT scanner CT systems CT values defined density detector systems display dose profile dose values effective dose electron evaluation example fan beam field of measurement figure filter focal spot gantry geometrical Hounsfield image quality image reconstruction increase interpolation Kalender line integrals linear low-contrast modulation transfer function MSCT multi-row detector multi-slice spiral CT noise level object parameters patient dose phantom pitch factor pixel noise point spread function position possible projection radiographs radiological Radon transform reduced rotation scan mode scan plane selected sequential CT single slice single-slice slice sensitivity profile slice thickness slice width SOMATOM spatial resolution structures survey radiograph table feed tion tissue tube current typically volume rendering volume scanning voxel x-ray tube z-axis z-direction z-interpolation
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| Title | Computed Tomography: Fundamentals, System Technology, Image Quality, Applications |
| Author | Willi Kalender |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Publicis MCD Verlag, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 3895780812, 9783895780813 |
| Length | 220 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / General Medical / Allied Health Services / Radiological & Ultrasound Technology Medical / Diagnostic Imaging Medical / Internal Medicine Medical / Radiology & Nuclear Medicine |
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