Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy
About the Book Series
Since its inception under the founding series editor, William R. Hendee, this series has reflected the cutting edge of science and technology developments in medical imaging and radiation therapy. The series encompasses all aspects of therapy and imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of human disease, presenting essential physics, biology, and medicine together with detailed, critical discussion of the state of the art and expert perspectives on future directions. Individual titles cover the wide spectrum of therapeutic aspects and imaging modalities, from magnetic resonance imaging to ultrasound, computed tomography, optical imaging, and radiography. The target audience is advanced students, researchers, residents, scientists, and professionals in a range of fields, including medical physics, biomedical engineering, radiology, oncology, and allied disciplines.
New books in the series are commissioned by invitation. Authors are also welcome to contact the Series Editor Dr. David W. Jordan ([email protected]) or the publisher (Carolina Antunes, Physics Editor: [email protected]) to discuss new title ideas.
Cancer Nanotechnology: Principles and Applications in Radiation Oncology
1st Edition
Edited
By Sang Hyun Cho, Sunil Krishnan
June 30, 2020
Rapid advances in nanotechnology have enabled the fabrication of nanoparticles from various materials with different shapes, sizes, and properties, and efforts are ongoing to exploit these materials for practical clinical applications. Nanotechnology is particularly relevant in the field of ...
Cone Beam Computed Tomography
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris C. Shaw
June 30, 2020
Conventional computed tomography (CT) techniques employ a narrow array of x-ray detectors and a fan-shaped x-ray beam to rotate around the patient to produce images of thin sections of the patient. Large sections of the body are covered by moving the patient into the rotating x-ray detector and ...
Image Processing in Radiation Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristy K. Brock
June 30, 2020
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 ...
Image-Guided Radiation Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Daniel Bourland
June 30, 2020
Image-Guided Radiation Therapy presents key image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) technologies for external beam radiotherapy. The book explores the decades-long technological developments that have occurred in the realm of image-guided conformal, customized radiation treatment. Expert authors, ...
Informatics in Medical Imaging
1st Edition
Edited
By George C. Kagadis, Steve G. Langer
June 30, 2020
Informatics in Medical Imaging provides a comprehensive survey of the field of medical imaging informatics. In addition to radiology, it also addresses other specialties such as pathology, cardiology, dermatology, and surgery, which have adopted the use of digital images. The book discusses basic ...
Informatics in Radiation Oncology
1st Edition
Edited
By George Starkschall, R. Alfredo C. Siochi
June 30, 2020
Reflecting the increased importance of the collaborations between radiation oncology and informatics professionals, Informatics in Radiation Oncology discusses the benefits of applying informatics principles to the processes within radiotherapy. It explores how treatment and imaging information is ...
Physics of Mammographic Imaging
1st Edition
Edited
By Mia K. Markey
June 30, 2020
Due to the increasing number of digital mammograms and the advent of new kinds of three-dimensional x-ray and other forms of medical imaging, mammography is undergoing a dramatic change. To meet their responsibilities, medical physicists must constantly renew their knowledge of advances in medical ...
Physics of Thermal Therapy: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Moros
June 30, 2020
The field of thermal therapy has been growing tenaciously in the last few decades. The application of heat to living tissues, from mild hyperthermia to high-temperature thermal ablation, has produced a host of well-documented genetic, cellular, and physiological responses that are being researched ...
Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Todd Pawlicki, Peter Dunscombe, Arno J. Mundt, Pierre Scalliet
June 30, 2020
The first text to focus solely on quality and safety in radiotherapy, this work encompasses not only traditional, more technically oriented, quality assurance activities, but also general approaches of quality and safety. It includes contributions from experts both inside and outside the field to ...
Quantitative MRI in Cancer
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas E. Yankeelov, David R. Pickens, Ronald R. Price
June 30, 2020
Propelling quantitative MRI techniques from bench to bedside, Quantitative MRI in Cancer presents a range of quantitative MRI methods for assessing tumor biology. It includes biophysical and theoretical explanations of the most relevant MRI techniques as well as examples of these techniques in ...
Targeted Molecular Imaging
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J. Welch, William C. Eckelman
June 30, 2020
Targeted Molecular Imaging covers the development of novel diagnostic approaches that use an imaging probe and agent to noninvasively visualize cellular processes in normal and disease states. It discusses the concept, development, preclinical studies, and, in many cases, translation to the clinic ...
Clinical 3D Dosimetry in Modern Radiation Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Mijnheer
December 12, 2019
This book provides a first comprehensive summary of the basic principles, instrumentation, methods, and clinical applications of three-dimensional dosimetry in modern radiation therapy treatment. The presentation reflects the major growth in the field as a result of the widespread use of more ...