Radiography in the Digital Age: Physics, Exposure, Radiation Biology

CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION TO RADIOGRAPHIC SCIENCE
Chapter 2 - BASIC PHYSICS FOR RADIOGRAPHY
Chapter 3 - UNIT CONVERSIONS AND HELP WITH MATH
Chapter 4 - THE ATOM
Chapter 5 - ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Chapter 6 - MAGNETISM AND ELECTROSTATICS
Chapter 7 - ELECTRODYNAMICS
Chapter 8 - X-RAY MACHINE CIRCUITS AND GENERATORS
Chapter 9 - THE X-RAY TUBE
Chapter 10 - X-RAY PRODUCTION
Chapter 11 - CREATION OF THE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE
Chapter 12 - PRODUCTION OF SUBJECT CONTRAST
Chapter 13 - QUALITIES OF THE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE
Chapter 14 - MILLIAMPERE-SECONDS (mAs)
Chapter 15 - KILOVOLTAGE-PEAK (kVp)
Chapter 16 - GENERATORS AND FILTRATION
Chapter 17 - FIELD SIZE LIMITATION
Chapter 18 - PATIENT CONDITION, PATHOLOGY, AND CONTRAST AGENTS
Chapter 19 - SCATTERED RADIATION AND GRIDS
Chapter 20 - THE ANODE BEVEL AND FOCAL SPOT
Chapter 21 - SOURCE-TO-IMAGE RECEPTOR DISTANCE (SID)
Chapter 22 - OID AND DISTANCE RATIOS
Chapter 23 - ALIGNMENT AND MOTION
Chapter 24 - ANALYZING THE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE
Chapter 25 - SIMPLIFYING AND STANDARDIZING TECHNIQUE
Chapter 26 - USING AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE CONTROLS (AEC)
Chapter 27 - COMPUTER BASICS
Chapter 28 - CREATING THE DIGITAL IMAGE
Chapter 29 - DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
Chapter 30 - POSTPROCESSING OPERATIONS IN PRACTICE
Chapter 31 - CAPTURING THE DIGITAL IMAGE: DR AND CR
Chapter 32 - COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY (CR) APPLICATIONS
Chapter 33 - APPLYING RADIOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE TO DIGITAL IMAGING
Chapter 34 - DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND ELECTRONIC IMAGES
Chapter 35 - MOBILE RADIOGRAPHY AND TOMOGRAPHY
Chapter 36 - FLUOROSCOPY AND DIGITAL FLUOROSCOPY
Chapter 37 - QUALITY CONTROL
Chapter 38 - RADIATION PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 39 - RADIATION UNITS AND MEASUREMENT
Chapter 40 - RADIATION BIOLOGY: CELLULAR EFFECTS
Chapter 41 - RADIATION BIOLOGY: ORGANISM EFFECTS
Chapter 42 - RADIATION PROTECTION: PROCEDURES AND POLICIES
Appendix #1
Appendix #2
INDEX