Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine
Publisher: CRC
Published: November 28, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780415301718
First sentence: Physicians now possess the uncanny ability to see deep within the body without incisions, peering through skin and bone to gaze at the unborn child sucking its thumb, or to detect the potentially deadly action of a tumor.
Description: Indroduces the reader to technologies important to modern medicine, and the basic physical principles which underline them. Each topic includes an investigation of the basic science underlying the technique chosen, the instrumentation and imaging processing techniques utilized, and applications of each technique in either clinical settings or biomedical research.