Medical Images: Formation, Handling and Evaluation

Medical imaging is a very important area in diagnostic (andincreasingly therapeutic) medicine. Many new techniques arebeing developed or extended which depend on digital methods.Although conventional x-radiographs still comprise the bulkof the medical images acquired in a hospital, digitalmethods such as computerized tomography and magneticresonance imaging are now often claimed to have a moresignificant clinical impact.This book is concerned with three aspects of such digitalimages: their forma