Handbook of Medical Imaging, Volume 1 - Physics and Psychophysics

Description

This book examines x-ray imaging physics and reviews linear systems theory and its application to signal and noise propagation. Part I addresses the physics of important imaging modalities now in use, such as ultrasound, CT, MRI, and the recently emerging flat panel x-ray detectors and their application to mammography. Part II describes the relationship between image quality metrics and visual perception of the diagnostic information carried by medical images. Content:• Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents •Part I. Physics• Introduction to Part I 1. X-ray Production, Interaction, and Detection in Diagnostic Imaging 2. Applied Linear-Systems Theory 3. Image Quality Metrics for Digital Systems 4. Flat Panel Detectors for Digital Radiography 5. Digital Mammography 6. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 7. Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging 8. Tomographic Imaging •Part II. Psychophysics• Introduction to Part II 9. Ideal Observer Models of Visual Signal Detection 10. A Practical Guide to Model Observers for Visual Detection in Synthetic and Natural Noisy Images 11. Modeling Visual Detection Tasks in Correlated Image Noise with Linear Model Observers 12. Effects of Anatomical Structure on Signal Detection 13. Synthesizing Anatomical Images for Image Understanding 14. Quantitative Image Quality Studies and the Design of X-ray Fluoroscopy Systems 15. Fundamental ROC Analysis 16. The FROC, AFROC and DROC Variants of the ROC Analysis 17. Agreement and Accuracy Mixture Distribution Analysis 18. Visual Search in Medical Images 19. The Nature of Expertise in Radiology 20. Practical Applications of Perceptual Research Index