Description:
This proceedings of 1995 AAPM Summer
School on CT and Ultrasound provides the key information and major advances
in the two very important diagnostic imaging modalities of computed tomography
and ultrasound. It is consisted of two patrs as follow:
Table of Contents:
Part I. Ultrasound Technology
and Applications:
Physics of Ultrasound Propagation * Sound
Attenuation in Tissue * Sound Scattering in Tissue * Fundamentals of Acoustic
Transduction * Instrumentation for B-Mode Imaging * Principles of Doppler Imaging
* Image Processing Techniques * Ultrasound Phantoms - Concepts and Construction
* Acoustic Output Evaluation * Pulsed Echo Acceptance and Quality Control Testing
* Acceptance Tests for Doppler and Color Flow Imaging Equipment * Ultrasound
Bioeffects: The Mechanical and Thermal Indices * Ultrasound Contrast Agents
* Ultrasonic Therapy * 3D and Tomographic Ultrasound * High Frequency Ultrasound
Imaging
Part II.
Computed Tomography Technology and Applications:
Overview of the History and Principles
of CT Scanning * Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction * Data Collection
Strategies: Gantries and Detectors * CT Tube Technology * Evaluating Computed
Tomography Image Quality * Principles and Performance of Spiral CT * Principles
and Performance of Electron Beam CT * Quality Control and Acceptance Testing
of CT Systems * Performance Evaluation and Quality Control in Spiral CT * Image
Artifacts, Causes, and Correction * CT Dosimetry and Radiation Safety * CT in
Radiotherapy and Tomotherapy * Networking and Interfacing CT and RTP * Clinical
Benefits of Spiral CT * 3D Displays for Computed Tomography * Spiral CT Angiography
Contributors Include:
Jerry Arenson - Paul Carson - Fleming
Forsberg - J. Brian Fowlkes - Stanley H. Fox - Lee W. Goldman - James F. Greenleaf
- Christy K. Holland - Jiang Hsieh - Kullervo Hynynen - Michael F. Insana -
Peter M. Joseph - Phillip F. Judy - Willi A. Kalender - T. Rock Mackie - Cynthia
H. McCollough - Sandy Napel - Lawrence Rothenberg - Lois Rutz - Christoph Suess
- Kai E. Thomenius - Daniel H. Turnbull - James A. Zagzebski- Ernest Madsen-
Paul L. Carson- Mitchell M. Goodsitt- Christy K. Holland- Kullervo Hynynen-
Jerry Arenson- Stanley H. Fox- Frank E. Zink- Christopher Suess- Arkadiusz Polacin-
Jiang Hsieh- Keith S. Pentlow- Jeffrey Siegel- Cathy Tryon
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