ABSTRACT
Medical imaging is one of the top developments that “changed the face of clinical medicine” during the last millennium. (New England Journal of Medicine)
This chapter begins with the de facto imaging standard DICOM used by over 90% of imaging practitioners. The next section describes each of the imaging technologies with its basic underlying operational physics. Level II introduces the PACS used to store and process images, teleradiology, and the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), which provides multilingual conversion capabilities. Level III discusses the advanced topics in radio pharmacology, the science of radio isotopes used to enhance images and advanced techniques used for automated image analysis (Figure 8.1).
