Main description:

This fully updated new edition provides an authoritative resource for trainees, experienced radiologists and imaging technologists. All chapters have been thoroughly revised to give most current knowledge of the topics included.

Provides an update on all imaging modalities: CT, MRI, ultrasound and digital radiography.
Discusses trending topics such as artificial intelligence and deep learning.
Retains the popular topics such as ethical and legal issues in radiology including PC-PNDT, radiation protection, contrast media, and evidence-based radiology.
Presents the key facts in the form of tables and boxes.
New images have been added to make it richly illustrative.

Contents:

SECTION 1 ADVANCES IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING

Chapter

1. Ultrasound Instrumentation: Practical Applications

Chapter

2. Image Optimization in Ultrasound

Chapter

3. Ultrasound Elastography: Principles and Application

SECTION 2 ADVANCES IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

Chapter

4. Computed Tomography Hardware including Dual Energy Computed Tomography: An Update

Chapter

5. Advanced Computed Tomography Applications and Software

SECTION 3 ADVANCES IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Chapter

6. Magnetic Resonance Instrumentation and MRI Safety Issues: An Update

Chapter

7. Image Optimization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Chapter

8. Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Chapter

9. Perfusion MRI

Chapter

10. Magnetic Resonance Angiography

Chapter

11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pulse Sequences

SECTION 4 ADVANCES IN RADIOGRAPHY AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Chapter

12. Digital Radiography: An Update

Chapter

13. Digital Mammography

Chapter

14. Fluoroscopy and Digital Subtraction Angiography

Chapter

15. Tools and Drugs in Interventional Radiology

SECTION 5 UPDATE IN CONTRAST MEDIA

Chapter

16. Magnetic Resonance Contrast Media

Chapter

17. Ultrasound Contrast Agents

Chapter

18. Iodinated Contrast Media: An Update (To Include Reactions and Management)

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS

Chapter

19. Radiology Information System and Picture Archiving and Communication System

Chapter

21. Radiation Hazards and Radiation Units

Chapter

22. Radiation Protection

Chapter

23. Planning Modern Imaging Department with Regulatory Requirements in Radiology Practice

Chapter

24. Recent Advances in PET/CT and PET/MR

Chapter

25. Ethical and Legal Issues in Radiology

Chapter

26. Basics of Radiomics, Texture Analysis and Radiogenomics

Chapter

27. Artificial Intelligence in Radiology

Chapter

28. Structured Reporting in Radiology

Index