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Looking within
Anthony B. Wolbarst
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Paperback. This guide explains how the principal imaging devices work and how they help physicians save lives. It explains the medical technologies that might come to play important roles in the readers life, and for those who wish to explore the issues of the associated benefits, costs, and risks. Num Pages: 219 pages, 98 black-and-white photos, 86 line figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: MBG; MBX; MJA; MMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 68.
A hundred years ago, a doctor had no way to look within the body of a patient other than to slice it open. That changed radically at the turn of the century, with the discovery of X-rays. X-ray and other forms of diagnostic imaging technology developed slowly but steadily from then until the 1970s, at which point a revolution occurred. Made possible largely by the availability of powerful but inexpensive computers, the rapid and widespread adoption of computed tomography (CT) and, a decade later, of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) greatly expanded the power of clinical imaging, and even changed the ... Read more
A hundred years ago, a doctor had no way to look within the body of a patient other than to slice it open. That changed radically at the turn of the century, with the discovery of X-rays. X-ray and other forms of diagnostic imaging technology developed slowly but steadily from then until the 1970s, at which point a revolution occurred. Made possible largely by the availability of powerful but inexpensive computers, the rapid and widespread adoption of computed tomography (CT) and, a decade later, of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) greatly expanded the power of clinical imaging, and even changed the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520211827
SKU
V9780520211827
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Ref
99-1
About Anthony B. Wolbarst
Anthony Brinton Wolbarst, a physicist formerly at Harvard Medical School and the National Cancer Institute, is currently at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Wolbarst is the author of Symmetry and Quantum Systems: An Introduction to Group Representations (1977) and Physics of Radiology (1993), and editor of Environment in Peril ... Read more
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