Webb's Physics of Medical Imaging

Since the publication of the best-selling, highly acclaimed first edition, the technology and clinical applications of medical imaging have changed significantly. Gathering these developments into one volume, Webb-s Physics of Medical Imaging, Second Edition presents a thorough update of the basic physics, modern technology and many examples of clinical application across all the modalities of medical imaging.

New to the Second Edition

• Extensive updates to all original chapters
• Coverage of state-of-the-art detector technology and computer processing used in medical imaging
• 11 new contributors in addition to the original team of authors
• Two new chapters on medical image processing and multimodality imaging
• More than 50 percent new examples and over 80 percent new figures
• Glossary of abbreviations, color insert and contents lists at the beginning of each chapter

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