Practical Digital Imaging & Pacs: 1999 AAPM Summer School Proceedings (Medical Physics Monograph)

This book emphasizes the new advances in imaging technology, covering all of the inherently digital imaging modalities such as computed radiography, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine. Digital Image Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standards provide the path to integration of an electronic network and PACS comprised of digital imaging modalities, image workstations, and image archive. Knowledge of these standards is essential to ensure a successful PACS implementation, for which the medical physicist takes a primary responsibility. Therefore, the focus of this book is to provide the medical physicist and other interested individuals with tools and information to become conversant with the details of DICOM, and to enable the verification of optimal image acquisition, display, archiving, and quality control of PACS in the clinical environment.

". . . a valuable resource for medical physicists, hospital based computer scientists and radiologists." -- The Physicist, January/February 2000

"...manadatory for anyone (e.g., physicist, radiologists, computer scientists, hospital information managers, imaging reseaarch professionals)..." --American Journal of Roentgenology, April 2000

"Any medical physicist, biomedical engineer or health professional. . .will find this book an excellent and complete reference." --Canadian Medical Physics Newsletter, October 1999

"This book has something for every medical physicist with an interest or active involvement in digital imaging." --Medical Physics, December 1999