Looking Within: How X-Ray, Ct, Mri, Ultrasound, and Other Medical Images Are Created, and How They Help Physicians Save Lives (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
Preface

1. From the Watching of Shadows
2. Shadows on X-Ray Film: Radiography / Mammography
3. Shadows on Television, Live: Fluoroscopy
4. Shadows in Computers: Going Digital
5. Slices of Life: Computed Tomography (CT)
6. Like Embers in the Dark: Nuclear Medicine
7. Shadows from Echoes: Ultrasound
8. A Watery Mirror: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
9. Epilogue: Looking Forward

Appendix A. Protons, Photons, and All That:
A Brief Review of Atoms and Radiation
Appendix B. More about MRI:
T 1 and Proton Spin Relaxation

Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index