Medical Physics

With contributions from leading international researchers, this reference provides an up-to-date review of the progress of EIT, the present state of knowledge, and a look at future advances and applications. The book discusses reconstruction algorithms, EIT instrumentation, and various EIT studies, ..

The book explores how to deal with the threats posed by different radiological sources, including those that are lost or hidden, and the issues posed by the use of such sources. It presents measurement methods and approaches to model and quantify the extent of threat, and also presents strategies fo..

Authored by a leading educator, this book teaches the fundamental mathematics and physics concepts associated with medical imaging systems. Going beyond mere description of imaging modalities, this book delves into the mechanisms of image formation and image quality common to all imaging systems: co..

Fundamentals of Radiation Dosimetry..

Gamma cameras are traditionally large devices that are situated in nuclear medicine departments, but recent advances in detector design have enabled the production of compact gamma cameras that allow nuclear imaging at the patient bedside and in the operating theatre. Gamma Cameras for Interventiona..

Written by international experts in radiation oncology, biomedical imaging, computing, and physics, this book collects state-of-the-art research on GPU computing and its applications to medical physics problems in radiation therapy...

This pioneering work brings together recommendations sanctioned by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and documents 40 years of cutting-edge work with Monte Carlo Codes and radiation protection dosimetry. Assembling the work of nearly all major phantom (computational mode..

With an extensive list of references on glucose sensing, glucose monitoring, and light-tissue interaction, this handbook analyzes trends in noninvasive optical glucose sensing and discusses its impact on tissue optical properties. It presents an up-to-date review of commercialized glucose sensors an..

From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment modalities, this handbook covers all theoretical and practical aspects of radiotherapy physics and biology. The first three parts present the fundamentals of the underlying physics, radiobiology, and technology involve..

Images from CT, MRI, PET, and other medical instrumentation have become central to the radiotherapy process in the past two decades, thus requiring medical physicists, clinicians, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, and trainees to integrate and segment these images efficiently and accurately in a c..

This book clearly and concisely explains a range of adaptive and intelligent systems, highlighting their benefits and limitations with realistic medical examples. It illustrates how these systems can be used in all stages of medical treatment. Each chapter presents a family of an intelligent and ada..

Combining state-of-the-art literature together with the author's personal research experience, this book describes in detail the physics germane to the development of a particular form of clinical conformal radiotherapy called intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). IMRT has become a topic of ..