Diagnostic-Imaging Books

Best book so far on PACS and filmless imaging

This is a clear concise guide to the burgeoning PACS world that no clinician or radiologist should be without.

It is an excellent book!

An excellent overview of Pediatric radiology who need to be familiar, but not expert in the field.

This is a well-written text that is easily readable during your first pediatric radiology rotation (slightly bigger than Helm's pink book). It's clearly targeted at radiology residents, since the author includes short explanations and tips on performing common fluoro procedures and anticipates questions most residents have when first starting peds. Given its size and cost, some compromises with the book were made (I would like to see more pictures and diagrams), but the ones in the book are generally of excellent quality. Pertinent films are discreetly labelled to illustrate major findings, a major benefit to newer residents. The topics are discussed clearly and succintly, with the most relevant facts of each topic included. Given it's size it's not overly comprehensive, but this is probably a plus for most residents frustrated by larger texts that drone on about one topic or focus on obscure topics that are unlikely to be helpful early in their training. This book is much better than two larger and more expensive texts I have looked at, the Peds Requisites and the Essentials of Peds Radiology.

It is very well written and all pertinent topics for a resident are included without too much details. It is good for a quick overall review of the subject with good images for residents preparing for oral boards.

This book is an almost complete collection of algorithms in computer processing of medical images. As an addition to computer processing litterature, this book fills a gap much in need of being closed. The text contains three levels of informating, a scholarly review of each topic, a professional review of methods and their application, and, finally, several chapters for each subject of thorough mathematical descriptions of individual methods and approaches, with useful examples from "real life". The book is divided into six sections: I Enhancement, describing the methods available for enhancing, e.g., noise reduction, window/level processing and grayscale manipulations. II Segmentation, dividing images into usefull subsets for further processing, III Quantification, measuring on images. IV Registration, making different images, both from between different subjects and between different modalities as well as between individuals having imaging studies done on separate occasions. V Visualization, rendering images for views in several different formats, including virtual endoscopies and volume rendering techniques. VI Compression, Storage and Communication, describing methods related to DICOM storage facilities and files, compressing, normalizing grayscale for optimal storage and removing nuisances from images. This book is contains a wealth of information in a handy format, making it an invaluable companion for anyone working in the field of medical image processing. It is also a source of vast information for the interested radiologist, although some may find the extend of mathematical understanding required somewhat overwhelming. Even if the DICOM part of this book does not comprise a large part, the book may be worth its price for this section alone.

This book presents more than fifty detailed expositions in a half-dozen major areas:
- Enhancement of indistinct images,
- Segmentation into regions with different physiological meaning,
- Quantification of textures, structural features, and diagnostic markers,
- Registration of images from multiple modalities, times, or patients,
- Visualization of complex data in intuitively meaningful displays, and
- Compression and storage of the vast volumes of data in even a single image.

Many chapters apply well-known image processing and image understanding techniques, sometimes with extensions for volumetric data. For example, there's diagnostic information in the angle between two parts of a bony structure, but X-ray images generally foreshorten structures tilted away from the image plane; 3D reconstruction techniques help out here. Segmentation problems take on special urgency when used to isolate lesions or other abnormalities. Techniques often merge in solving any one problem. For example, identifying a brain lesion might first require segmenting the different kinds of tissue using volumetric adaptation of common imaging techniques, warping the standard physiological model to match the patient's unique anatomy, then applying neural networks or other mechanisms to identify the differences of clinical interest. Then, as any mammogram patient knows, non-rigid tissues can shift during imaging so that the picture taken corresponds only roughly to the body structures as they appear normally.

The target reader has rich mathematical background, and some working understanding of image-capture technologies and of diagnosticians' needs. This book aims squarely at the engineer translating the image data into medically useful forms, without losing data of diagnostic importance (and this means you, all you image-compressors out there). By design, this addresses the higher levels of image computation. It deals only occasionally with instrumentation issues, such as image reconstruction. I was interested to learn, however, that the strength of MRI as a tool for chemical analysis is a problem in imaging - the same chemical shifts that represent molecular structure actually mis-represent physiological structure.

This massive book offers a lot to many practitioners in the computations behind contemporary medical imaging. For others, however, the 900-page thickness will be most helpful when a small child sits at a tall table, once she's too big for a booster seat. My immediate needs have to do with image reconstruction from raw data, a topic addressed only tangentially here, so I'm in the second category.

-- wiredweird

The editors of this book have done a terrific job. Even though the price is quite high, with 900 pages of state-of-the art and well-illustrated timely and high quality text this volume is a bargain! It is important to focus on the title: this book deals with computer processing and computer analysis of images encountered in medicine and biology. It contains about 50 papers distributed over six sections. The book does not deal with imaging physics nor with reconstruction algorithms. The level is suitable for biomedical engineers, computer scientists, and biomedical researchers. Both the organization and the selection of topics are excellent. Though there are idiosyncrasies in the coverage, the relevance and quality of the papers is very high. This is an ideal book for imaging researchers wishing to learn the state of the art outside their immediate discipline and for students wishing to enter the field. I look forward to seeing other volumes in this series!

This book is a handy book for students and doctors a like on the subject of spinal pain and related symptoms assocaited with the spine. Detail chapters on imaging and cause and effect of spinal conditions and Dx process. Highly recommended, also recommend the Backsmart Fitness Plan by Dr. Adam Weiss, a complete full body workout that patients can understand and perform.

I love the illustrations in the text
Discussions are also fairly good
But it will be nicer if the price were a little cheaper

This is an wonderful medical textbook devoted to the Spine. It covers everything from evaluating the back pain patient, imaging, and procedures. It is well written with great images. A must have the the practicing physcian with an interest in spine.

Excellent book, especially for medical students. If you would like to know the basics principles of radiological studies interpretation, you should get this book!

The lecture notes that were provided provided excellent guidelines and addendums to the already present techning syllabus teaching syllabus that I have. Would be good if there were a CD_ROM version as well.

The lecture notes that were provided provided excellent guidelines and addendums to the already present techning syllabus teaching syllabus that I have. Would be good if there were a CD_ROM version as well.

As a scientist that uses MRI on a daily basis I have often wanted to write a book for introducing the subject to the many students, technologists, and other interested parties that wish to use MRI in their work. Fortunately, Brown and Semelka have written it for me (the royalites would be nice though!). The book is excellent in presenting the complexities of magnetic resonance imaging in a straight forward intuitive physical picture. The authors then proceed to descibe most of the main MRI techniques leaving the reader with a firm understanding about each imaging sequence. The book addresses in short but nonetheless satisfactory fashion such issues as image contrast, prepatory pulses, imaging artifacts and methods to reduce artifacts. The authors include a chapter covering the main components of any MR imager which should reduce the bewilderment that most novices have when they must walk into the equipment room. Finally, the authors cover several areas of application in the last few chapters reviewing the main topics of each. A list of leading references and suggested readings are included at the end of the book if the reader desires more in depth information. The book is compact, inexpensive and should be the first book for anyone looking to MRI as a tool for their work.

Although I am only in the chapter 2 right now, I can't wait to share my feelings. Compare to other books that I've read before, this book is easier to understand. The author didn't use some beautiful words or unmeaning words. He just got the point. For further reserching, this might be insufficient, but for technician like me or anyone who wants to know about MRI, this book will be the best choice to the avenue to understanding.

As a scientist that uses MRI on a daily basis I have often wanted to write a book for introducing the subject to the many students, technologists, and other interested parties that wish to use MRI in their work. Fortunately, Brown and Semelka have written it for me (the royalites would be nice though!). The book is excellent in presenting the complexities of magnetic resonance imaging in a straight forward intuitive physical picture. The authors then proceed to descibe most of the main MRI techniques leaving the reader with a firm understanding about each imaging sequence. The book addresses in short but nonetheless satisfactory fashion such issues as image contrast, prepatory pulses, imaging artifacts and methods to reduce artifacts. The authors include a chapter covering the main components of any MR imager which should reduce the bewilderment that most novices have when they must walk into the equipment room. Finally, the authors cover several areas of application in the last few chapters reviewing the main topics of each. A list of leading references and suggested readings are included at the end of the book if the reader desires more in depth information. The book is compact, inexpensive and should be the first book for anyone looking to MRI as a tool for their work.

I listened to the interview on NPR's Science Friday several months ago thought how exciting can the discovery of x-rays be? I gave it a quick glance at a local book store and I was hooked. Did people actually buy lead lined underwear? Do physicians make mistakes? Even if they are treating the president of the United States? Lawyers found a way to profit from x-rays 100 years ago too. It is cleverly presented describing events as they occurred. I did find one fact that was not correct, the invention of television. According to the book, TUBE, television was invented 15 years earlier than what was mentioned in the book. Aside from that, I think it is an incredible story.

On page 92 of "Naked to the Bone", author Kevles gibes at the 1896 edition of "Practical Radiography", which through 20 years of reprints carried an inverted x-ray frontispiece captioned "The Human Heart in situ". She explains that "many people, including physicians, simply could not tell what they were looking at in a radiograph or through a fluoroscope." I would certainly wish her the same 20 years of reprints for her most informative and well- researched history, but before the second edition comes out she should correct the MRI on page 174, which is a dandy view of the cervical spine but which is inverted! Apparently, progress in medical imaging has far outpaced progress in editorial scrutiny over the past 100 years.

I love reading science books geared toward non-scientists such as I. Bettyann Holtzmann Kelves Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century exactly fit the bill. Profusely illustrated and gracefully written, this fine work of non-fiction tells the story of x-rays, CT scan, MRI, sonograms, and PET scans. Kelves writes for the non-scientist, and does an excellent job of explaining how these various machines work, how they were perceived at the time, the economics of their development and marketing (Kelves never forgets that, for better or worse, medicine and inventing have always been businesses), and their changes in perception and use over time. Perhaps most interesting, and unexpected, are her two chapters addressing how medical imaging -- the ability to see "bones and all" -- was itself imaged in and influenced the visual, literary, and fine arts. Of particular interest to me, as a lawyer, is her accounts of how x-rays and other imaging devices were first used, and then later relied upon (or rejected) in courts of law. The depth and breadth of her research are truly impressive, as is her fine prose.

One of the best and most up-to-date treatises, covering all aspects of neuroradiology. The first few chapters cover the clinically relevant aspects of MRI physics which I have found extremely helpful. New and advanced MRI techniques are well covered from both a basic and clinical standpoint, a vital element not quite seen in other books. This book effectively fills the empty void between older and introductory textbooks such as Osborn's or Requisites and the multivolume subspecialty textbooks on various aspects of neuroradiology. The authors are an international group of experts in their field, mostly from the US. There is coverage of clinically relevant MRI physics, adult and pediatric brain imaging, orbits, sinuses, skull base, and the spine. There are also chapters on myelography, interventional neuroradiology, and spine interventions. The liberal use of tables in some chapters is very helpful and the figures are very well selected and produced.

This is a good general text for anyone wanting to review both MRI physics and predominantly MRI neuroradiology. There are areas that use some CT etc., but the emphasis is definitely on MRI.

According to the publisher's advertisement, this single-volume textbook of neuroradiology "is destined to be the new benchmark among text/reference books for neuroradiology etc". This flagrant overstatement should not discredit the book. Despite the usual problems with multi-authored books of this size (the style is not uniform, particular chapters do generally better than others, and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy is not the same as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease), this book is generally well-organized, its coverage is comprehensive enough and by this time it is probably the most up-to-date textbook of neuroradiology in the market.

I was disappointed when I received my book. The first time I needed to use it I had to buy a NIC and NOC book in order to understand their NIC and NOC references. This book would be good for a practitioner with a good knowledge of the interventions and the outcomes. If you are a student, as I am save your money now and go ahead and buy the NIC and NOC, and not this book, because I found I could not use it at all.

This book is very user-friendly. Content is placed logically, and the diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes are specific. It also provides nearly all of the interventions for specific dianoses so that none are missed. This book contains a wealth of information that gives nurses evidence that nursing care is unique and results in measurable outcomes! I recommend this book for students and practitioners.

My professor gave this book to me as a gift, and since then, it has helped me a lot with care plans. The book provides a comprehensive list of Nursing Diagnosis with simple definition, Major Interventions, Suggested Interventions, and optional interventions for each outcome. It's short, simple, clear and easy for quick reference

This book is a MUST read for anyone involved in PACs. It has something for everyone, from a PACs administrator to an engineer configuring systems. Dr. Huang covers a wide range of material, including the basics of projectional x-ray, how different modalities work, to PACs and all of PACs elements. The book's emphasis is on the basics and principles, however. Don't look for specific companies or technology. I was also surprised that Cardiology and Clinical Imaging Systems were omitted. That said, I have not found a more complete book on the subject of PACs. The text is easy to read and the concepts clearly explained. If you need to ramp your knowledge up quickly on PACs or need a reference to use the investment in this book is WELL worth it.

One of the few available books on PACS. Highly recommended for people who want to study PACS based on one book, instead of going all out to read lots of academic papers. Cover all major concepts. Sort of expensive, though.

I am a software engineer who has worked for many years in various areas of computer connectivity. I recently accepted a position with a provider of DICOM (Digital Imaging And Communication In Medicine) software packages.

I needed to get up to speed fast on the overall architecture of imaging systems and PACS. I needed a birds-eye view of the various image acquisition devices and the information management systems linking them. This book provided everything I needed. Worth the money!