TY  - BOOK
AU  - D'Elia,Maurizio
AU  - Madaffari,Amedeo
TI  - Medical imaging: procedures, techniques, and applications 
T2  - Medical devices and equipment
SN  - 9781620810668
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - [Hauppauge] New York
PB  - Nova Biomedical, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Incorporated
KW  - Diagnostic imaging
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Imaging systems in medicine
KW  - Image processing
KW  - Digital techniques
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; MEDICAL IMAGING ; MEDICAL IMAGING ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; UTILITY OF WHOLE-BODY FLUORINE-18-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH LARGE-VESSEL VASCULITIS ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION ; METHODS; RESULTS; 1) Role of FDG-PET and PET/CT in the Management of Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) and Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR; Contribution of FDG-PET in the Diagnosis, Assessment of Disease Activity, Extent of Disease and Response to Treatment ; Role of FDG-PET in Predicting Relapse and Aortic Complications; Comparison between FDG-PET and MRI in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Disease Activity during Immunosuppressive Therapy Comparison between FDG-PET and US in the Diagnosis of GCA ; Value of Semi-Quantitative PET Analysis ; The Potential Added Value of Hybrid PET/CT ; 2) Role of FDG-PET and PET/CT in Patients with TA ; 3) Role of FDG-PET in Patients with Chronic Periaortitis and Retroperitoneal Fibrosis ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES; ROBUST REGISTRATION OF HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS ; 2.1. Materials; 2.2. Feature Extraction 2.3. Image Registration; 2.4. Registration Refinement ; 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; 3.1. Registration Examples; 3.2. Blood Vessel Visualization ; 3.3. Quality of the Registration; 3.4. Statistical Evaluation ; 3.5. Computation Time ; CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES ; UTILITY OF WHOLE-BODY FLUORINE-18-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH SARCOIDOSIS ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION ; METHODS ; RESULTS ; A) Literature Data; B) Problems and Limitations; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ANATOMICAL AND METABOLIC MEDICAL IMAGINGAbstract; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Fundamentalsofinteractionofphotonswithmatter; 1.1.1. CrosssectionandMassattenuationcoefficient; 1.2. GeneraloverviewofMonteCarlomethods; 2. Applicationsofradiationtransportmethodsformedicalimaging; 2.1. Modelinganatomicalimagingtechniques; 2.2. Digitalradiography; 2.3. Mammography; 2.4.ComputedTomography; 2.5. Detectorresponseincorporation; 2.6. Exampleformodelingmetabolicimaging; 2.6.1. SinglePhotonEmissionTomography(SPECT); 3. Conclusion; 3.1. Radiationtransportmodels; 3.2. Imageformationanddetectionphysicsforanatomicalandmetabolicimaging3.3. Finalremarksabouttheimplementedradiationtransportmodels; References; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING: PRINCIPLES AND RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; 1. Introduction; 2. ElectricalImpedanceTomography; 2.1. EITMathematicalModeling; 2.2. Gauss-Newtonapproach:ImageReconstruction; 2.3. PEPRmethod; 3. EIDORS; 3.1. SoftwareArchitecture; 3.1.1. Fwdmodel; 3.1.2. Data; 3.1.3. Invmodel; 3.1.4. Image; 4. KohonenSelfOrganizingMaps-KSOM; 5. ApplicationandResults; 5.1. TechniqueImplementation; 6. Conclusions; References
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