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Reading Guide
Who this book is for
For early undergraduate students who want to understand how imaging instruments produce their pictures. It offers a free starting point before a specialist treatment of reconstruction or a more extensive medical-physics reference. Readers can begin with the graphical explanations and return to the mathematical detail as their preparation grows.
Prerequisites
Basic algebra, functions and introductory physics are useful. Calculus and Fourier transforms help with the mathematical sections, but graphical explanations support an initial conceptual reading.
What it covers
System theory and image processing establish a common vocabulary before the imaging modalities. The progression connects familiar optical ideas with more complicated image-formation processes. Comparing the modalities reveals that images depend on a measurement model as well as the anatomy being examined.
How to use it
Read the foundations before comparing two modalities. For each, sketch the path from physical interaction to recorded data and reconstructed image. Mark the assumptions, possible artefacts and information lost along that path. Revisit the Fourier material when moving to MRI and CT rather than memorizing a separate collection of device descriptions.
Edition and sources
Springer published the first edition in 2018; this record uses eBook ISBN 9783319965208. The publisher provides open web chapters and a full PDF. The guide draws on the contents and introductory preface rather than a full-book review.
