Main description:

This book presents different approaches on multi-modality imaging with a focus on biomedical applications. Medical imaging can be divided into two categories: functional (related to physiological body measurements) and anatomical (structural) imaging modalities.

In particular, this book covers imaging combinations coming from the usual popular modalities (such as the anatomical modalities, e.g. X-ray, CT and MRI), and it also includes some promising and new imaging modalities that are still being developed and improved (such as infrared thermography (IRT) and photoplethysmography imaging (PPGI)), implying potential approaches for innovative biomedical applications.

Moreover, this book includes a variety of tools on computer vision, imaging processing, and computer graphics, which led to the generation and visualization of 3D models, making the most recent advances in this area possible. This is an ideal book for students and biomedical engineering researchers covering the biomedical imaging field.

Contents:

1. Infrared Thermography2. Photoplethysmography Imaging and Common Optical Hybrid Imaging Modalities3. Multimodal Image Fusion for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Planning4. CFD based post-processing of CT-MRI data to determine the Mechanics of Rupture in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms5. Human Head Modelling Simulation Applied to Electroconvulsive Therapy6. Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Brain Mapping7. The use of photon scattering interactions in the diagnosis and treatment of disease8. Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: systems, characterization and simulation9. Out-of-Core Rendering of Large Volumetric Data Sets at Multiple Levels of Detail10. Geometric and Topological Modelling of Organs and Vascular Structures from CT DataIndex