Product Description
Comprehensive guide to the essential understanding of the physics of radiology students will need to successfully employ diagnostic radiography.
Contents
Radiography and mathematics
- Principles of radiography
- Geometric radiography
- The inverse square law
- The exponential law
General physics
- Laws of physics (classical)
- Units of measurement
- Experimental error and statistics
- Heat
- Electrostatics
- Electricity (DC)
- Magnetism
- Electromagnetism
- Electromagnetic induction
- Alternating current flow
- The motor principle
- Capacitors
- The AC transformer
- Semiconductor materials
- Rectification
- Exposure and timing circuits
Construction and operation of x-ray tubes
- Diagnostic x-ray tubes
- Monitoring and protection of X-ray tubes
- Orthovoltage generators and linear accelerators
Atomic physics
- Laws of modern physics
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Elementary structure of the atom
- Radioactivity
X-rays and matter
- The production of x-rays
- Factors affecting x-ray beam quality and quantity
- Interaction of x-rays with matter
- Luminescence and photostimulation
- The radiographic image
Dosimetry and radiation protection
- Radiation dosimetry
- Radiation protection
Appendices, tables and answers to self-tests
- Mathematics for radiography
- Scintillation counters
- CT scanning
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Digital imaging
- Ultrasound imaging
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Modulation transfer function (MTF)
- SI base units