Medical Imaging Techniques: A Comparison

Systems Considerations.- Health Planning for a New Technology: Computerized Tomography Planning Issues in 1975 and 1976.- An Overview of Government Regulation of the Use of Computed Tomography through 1978.- Multiple Endpoints in the Assessment of Non-Invasive Technology.- The Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests.- The Impact of Technology on Health Care Productivity.- Clinical Results.- Scintigraphy, Ultrasound, and CT Scanning of the Liver.- Comparison Between Conventional Rectilinear and Multiplane Tomographic Nuclear Imaging of the Liver.- A Preliminary Report on Computed Tomography of the Thorax and Abdomen.- Ultrasonic Imaging of Neoplasms.- Computed Tomography of the Liver and Biliary Tract.- Computed Tomography of the Liver.- Echographic Diagnosis of Lesions of the Abdominal Aorta and Lymph Nodes.- Research Topics.- The Use of Computerized Tomography in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules.- Image Processing of Computerized Tomographic Scans.- Determination of Organ Volume.- Three-Dimensional Dynamic Imaging of the Heart, Lungs, and Circulation by Roentgen-Video Computed Tomography.- A Digital Moving Target Indicator System for Detection of Intracranial Arterial Echoes.- Relationship of Images of Acoustic Refractive Index and Attenuation to Tissue Types within Excised Female Breast.- Feasibility of NMR Zeugmatographic Imaging of the Heart and Lungs.- Mutual Impedivity Spectrometry and the Feasibility of its Incorporation into Tissue-Diagnostic Anatomical Reconstitution and Multivariate Time-Coherent Physiological Measurements.- Tutorials.- Basic Principles of Diagnostic Ultrasound.- Nuclear Medicine Imaging.- Algorithms in Computerized Tomography.- Scanning Methods and Reconstruction Algorithms for Computerized Tomography.- Principles of Signal Analysis with Applications to Medical Imaging.- Author Index.