Technical Advances in Biomedical Physics - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

I. Overview Lectures.- New Physical Methods in Medicine and Environmental Sciences.- Physics in Medicine and Biology - 10 years of Progress.- Clinicians' Expectations from the new Technology for in vivo diagnostic examinations.- Recent Developments for in vivo Diagnostic Examinations Using Physical Methods - The Clinicians' Viewpoint.- II. Technical Advances Applicable Mainly in Vitro.- Cell image analysis and quantitative cytology.- A cell biologist's view of Current Technology.- Development of Optical Methods for Quantitative Cytochemistry.- TV Contrast Enhancement Methods for Chromosome Analysis.- Luminescence and Fluorescence Methods.- Microbeam Design Considerations.- Partial Nuclear and Cytoplasmic (Mitochondrial) Irradiation of Single Living Cells using Ultra-Violet and Visible Light.- Photobiology of Furocoumarins (Psoralens) and Recent Developments in the Photochemotherapy (PUVA) of Psoriasis.- Effects of Ionizing Radiation on the Structural and Physical Properties of the Skin.- Electromagnetic field dosimetry in Biomedical Investigations.- III Technical Advances Applicable Mainly in Vivo.- Physical Principles of Radionuclide Emission Imaging Using Single Photon Techniques.- Physical Limitations to the Quality of X and Gamma Ray Images.- The Presentation of Photon-Limited Images.- The Influence of Digitisation on the Quality of Radionuclide Images.- Diagnostic Processing and Analysis of Medical Images.- Principles and Practice of Radiopharmaceutical Production.- Planning and Running a Hospital Radiopharmacy.- New Advances in Nuclear Cardiology.- Applications of Convolution and Deconvolution Methods in Nuclear Medicine.- Some Recent Developments in X-ray Techniques.- Biomedical Applications of Ultrasound.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Proton Imaging.

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