THE PHYSICS OF RADIOLOGY AND IMAGING
THE PHYSICS OF RADIOLOGY AND IMAGING
Targeted to postgraduate students of medical physics and radiology, appearing for Master of Science, Diplomate of National Board, Doctor of Medicine, and Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists examinations
Foreword R Ravichandran
Foreword R Ravichandran
FOREWORD
It is a great privilege to me for writing the foreword to this book 'The Physics of Radiology and Imaging' written by Professor Doctor K Thayalan, Former Professor and Head of the Department of Radiology Physics, Barnard Institute of Radiology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, India. Doctor K Thayalan has vast experience in teaching Medical Physics of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine. He authored many textbooks earlier relating to radiological physics and radiological safety; they are being considered as reference books in many institutions and universities.
There has been a long-felt need for comprehensive textbook in the field of physics applied to medical imaging, for medical postgraduates in radiology, medical physicists and technologists, and this book meets the requirement.
This book is a quintessence of basic and applied physics thoroughly explaining principles of physics of computed and digital radiography, image intensifier fluoroscopy, mammography, ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. All the chapters are well laid out with good explanations and illustrations. Fundamentals have been brought out in a unique way for easy assimilation into memory of teachers and students. Explanations on image resolution, contrast, artifacts on different modalities are very vivid and nice for good understanding of the complex details.
It was a real pleasure for me to go through the entire contents to write this foreword and readers will agree with me that all details looked for relating to physics of imaging is available in this book. I am sure that this book will be referred globally in the field of medical imaging, helping the residents of Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom and Doctor of Medicine postgraduates of different universities in India.