Medical Imaging Systems

A topic within Biomedical Engineering, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Engineering.

Reading on Medical Imaging Systems

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Paper1973

Computerized Transverse Axial Scanning (Tomography): Part 1. Description of System

Godfrey N. Hounsfield

Describes the first working CT scanner, arguing that combining many one-dimensional X-ray absorption measurements taken at different angles and reconstructing them computationally reveals internal soft-tissue structure that projection X-rays cannot show.

Engineering · Biomedical Engineering

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Course2002

Principles of Medical Imaging

MIT OpenCourseWare

Treats every major imaging modality — X-ray CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear imaging — as an instance of the same tomographic reconstruction problem, recovering an internal structure from projections.

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Engineering · Biomedical Engineering

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Reading on Medical Imaging Systems

Computerized Transverse Axial Scanning (Tomography): Part 1. Description of System

Principles of Medical Imaging

Other topics in Biomedical Engineering