PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles and Applications, Second Edition

CONTENTS IN BRIEF

FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE

PREFACE OF THE LAST EDITION, 2004

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

H. K. HUANG SHORT BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ACRONYMS

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 INTRODUCTION

1.2 SOME HISTORICAL REMARKS ON PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PACS)

1.3 WHAT IS PACS?

1.4 PACS IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES

1.5 A GLOBAL VIEW OF PACS DEVELOPMENT

1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK

PART I MEDICAL IMAGING PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER 2 DIGITAL MEDICAL IMAGE FUNDAMENTALS

2.1 TERMINOLOGY

2.2 DENSITY RESOLUTION, SPATIAL RESOLUTION, AND SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO

2.3 TEST OBJECTS AND PATTERNS FOR MEASUREMENT OF IMAGE QUALITY

2.4 IMAGE IN THE SPATIAL DOMAIN AND THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN

2.5 MEASUREMENT OF IMAGE QUALITY

CHAPTER 3 TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGING

3.1 PRINCIPLES OF CONVENTIONAL PROJECTION RADIOGRAPHY

3.2 DIGITAL FUOROGRAPHY AND LASER FILM SCANNER

3.3 IMAGING PLATE TECHNOLOGY

3.4 DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY

3.5 FULL-FIELD DIRECT DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY

3.6 DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY AND PACS

3.7 NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING

3.8 2-D ULTRASOUND IMAGING

3.9 2-D LIGHT IMAGING

CHAPTER 4 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGING

4.1 2-D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM 1-D PROJECTIONS

4.2 3-D IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM 3-D DATA SET

4.3 TRANSMISSION X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT)

4.4 SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

4.5 POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET)

4.6 3-D ULTRASOUND IMAGING (3-D US)

4.7 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI)

4.8 3-D LIGHT IMAGING

4.9 3-D MICRO IMAGING AND SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING CENTER

CHAPTER 5 FOUR-DIMENSIONALITY, ...