Book Features
- Quick-reference guides printed on colored end sheets provide easy access to frequently used formulas, conversion tables, abbreviations, and more.
- Special Math Formulas boxes and Important Concepts boxes emphasize key chapter content.
- A full-color design highlights important information and clarifies concepts.
- Objectives, key terms, outlines, introductions, and summaries for every chapter help you organize material and identify vital information.
- Challenge Questions at the end of each chapter test your understanding of terms, concepts, and formulas with a variety of definition exercises, short answer questions, and calculations.
- Significant chapter updates help you ensure success on the ARRT exam and keep you current with the latest practices in mammography, interventional radiology, multislice spiral computed tomography, and radiation protection.
- A new chapter on The Digital Image identifies the benefits and challenges of working with digital imaging and familiarizes you with technology you'll encounter in the clinical setting.
- A new Viewing the Digital Image chapter guides you through the most up-to-date viewing practices to ensure an accurate understanding.
- An expanded glossary introduces important new terms common to today's practice settings.
Pt. I Radiologic Physics
1 Concepts of Radiologic Science 2
2 Fundamentals of Radiologic Science 16
3 The Structure of Matter 37
4 Electromagnetic Energy 56
5 Electricity, Magnetism, and Electromagnetism 72
Pt. II The X-Ray Beam
6 The X-ray Imaging System 100
7 The X-ray Tube 119
8 X-ray Production 138
9 X-ray Emission 151
10 X-ray Interaction With Matter 162
Pt. III The Radiograph
11 Radiographic Film 180
12 Processing the Latent Image 193
13 Radiographic Intensifying Screens 207
14 Control of Scatter Radiation 223
15 Radiographic Technique 244
16 Image Quality 272
17 Image Artifacts 297
18 Quality Control 304
Pt. IV Advanced X-Ray Imaging
19 Mammography 318
20 Mammography Quality Control 331
21 Fluoroscopy 346
22 Interventional Radiology 360
23 Multislice Spiral Computed Tomography 367
Pt. V Digital Imaging
24 Computer Science 396
25 Computed Radiography 412
26 Digital Radiography 426
27 Digital Fluoroscopy 436
28 The Digital Image 449
29 Viewing the Digital Image 466
30 Digital Display Quality Control 478
31 Digital Image Artifacts 486
Pt. VI Radiobiology
32 Human Biology 500
33 Fundamental Principles of Radiobiology 512
34 Molecular and Cellular Radiobiology 520
35 Early Effects of Radiation 534
36 Late Effects of Radiation 549
Pt. VII Radiation Protection
37 Health Physics 570
38 Designing for Radiation Protection 580
39 Patient Radiation Dose Management 597
40 Occupational Radiation Dose Management 613
Glossary 631
Illustration Credits 651
Product Details
- Hardcover: 704 pages
- Publisher: Mosby; 9 edition (March 4, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0323048374
- ISBN-13: 978-0323048378
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
- Author: Stewart C. Bushong
- List Price: $102.00