Covering both physical as well as mathematical and algorithmic foundations, this graduate textbook provides the reader with an introduction into modern biomedical imaging and image processing and reconstruction. These techniques are not only based on advanced instrumentation for image acquisition, but equally on new developments in image processing and reconstruction to extract relevant information from recorded data. To this end, the present book offers a quantitative treatise of radiography, computed tomography, and medical physics.

Contents

Introduction

Digital image processing

Essentials of medical x-ray physics

Tomography

Radiobiology, radiotherapy, and radiation protection

Phase contrast radiography

Object reconstruction under nonideal conditions