Foreword viii Preface ix Acknowledgements x 1 Computed tomography: an overview 2 2 Major components of a CT scanner 6 3 How CT scanners work 9 4 Data acquisition principles 12 5 X-ray tubes and generator technologies 15 6 X-ray beam filtration and collimation 18 7 Essential physics: radiation attenuation 21 8 Attenuation measurements and CT numbers 24 9 CT detector technology basics 27 10 CT image reconstruction basics 30 11 CT image display and storage 33 12 CT and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) 36 13 CT image postprocessing 38 14 Multislice CT – essential principles: part 1 42 15 Multislice CT – essential principles: part 2 46 16 Image quality: part 1 50 17 Image quality: part 2 – spatial resolution 53 18 Image quality: part 3 – contrast resolution 56 19 Image quality: part 4 – noise 59 20 Image quality: part 5 – artifacts 62 21 CT dose optimization: part 1 65 22 CT dose optimization: part 2 68 23 Optimization of radiation protection in CT 70 24 CT quality control basics 73 Index 76

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