TY - BOOK AU - Salditt, Tim AU - Aspelmeier, Timo AU - Aeffner, Sebastian TI - Biomedical imaging: principles of radiography, tomography and medical physics SN - 9783110426687 U1 - 616.0754 SAL-T PY - 2017/// CY - Germany PB - Walter DE Gruyter KW - Medical physics KW - Biomedical engineering--Mathematical models KW - Diagnostic imaging--Data processing KW - Diagnostic imaging--Methodology N1 - Covering both physical as well as mathematical and algorithmic foundations, this graduate textbook provides the reader with an introduction into modern biomedical imaging and image processing and reconstruction. These techniques are not only based on advanced instrumentation for image acquisition, but equally on new developments in image processing and reconstruction to extract relevant information from recorded data. To this end, the present book offers a quantitative treatise of radiography, computed tomography, and medical physics. Contents Introduction Digital image processing Essentials of medical x-ray physics Tomography Radiobiology, radiotherapy, and radiation protection Phase contrast radiography Object reconstruction under nonideal conditions ER -