Computed Tomography Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances

Description: X-ray computed tomography (CT) has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, in terms of both basic technology and new clinical applications. This professional reference book provides an overview of the evolution of CT, the mathematical and physical aspects of the technology, and the fundamentals of image reconstruction using algorithms. It examines image display from traditional methods through the most recent advancements, and it discusses key performance indices, theories behind the measurement methodologies, and different measurement phantoms in image quality. General descriptions and different categories of artifacts, their causes, and their corrections are considered at length. Partial Contents: Mathematics FundamentalsFundamentals of X-ray PhysicsImage Reconstruction and PresentationKey Performance Parameters of a CT ScannerMajor Components of the CT ScannerImage Artifacts: Appearances, Causes, and CorrectionsComputer Simulation and AnalysisHelical or Spiral CTMulti-sliceCTAdvanced,CT ApplicationsHsieh, Jiang is the author of 'Computed Tomography Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances' with ISBN 9780819444257 and ISBN 0819444251.