EHSAN SAMEI, PHD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE, is a Professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA, with appointments in Radiology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Medical Physics. DONALD J. PECK, PHD, DABR, FAAPM, FACR, is Professor of Practice in Medical Informatics at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, and Senior Staff Physicist in the Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Hendee’s Physics of Medical Imaging, 5th Edition is written with clear and focused academic language…and will be very useful both for students and lecturers on the subject.Congratulations to both authors for the excellent textbook.- Slavik Tabakov, King’s College London, UK, Immediate Past President IOMP (International Organization of Medical Physics)

• Foreword ixCommentary by William Hendee xiClarification and Acknowledgment xiiiIntroduction: The Role of Imaging in Medicine xv1 Physics of Radiation and Matter 12 Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology in Imaging 553 Imaging Science 894 Radiobiology, Dosimetry, and Protection 1435 Imaging Operation and Infrastructure 1816 Projection X-ray Imaging 2177 Volumetric X-ray Imaging 2438 Nuclear Medicine 2719 Ultrasonography 30510 Magnetic Resonance Imaging 339Index 453

EHSAN SAMEI, PHD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE, is a Professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA, with appointments in Radiology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Medical Physics. DONALD J. PECK, PHD, DABR, FAAPM, FACR, is Professor of Practice in Medical Informatics at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, and Senior Staff Physicist in the Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Hendee’s Physics of Medical Imaging, 5th Edition is written with clear and focused academic language…and will be very useful both for students and lecturers on the subject.Congratulations to both authors for the excellent textbook.- Slavik Tabakov, King’s College London, UK, Immediate Past President IOMP (International Organization of Medical Physics)

• Foreword ixCommentary by William Hendee xiClarification and Acknowledgment xiiiIntroduction: The Role of Imaging in Medicine xv1 Physics of Radiation and Matter 12 Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology in Imaging 553 Imaging Science 894 Radiobiology, Dosimetry, and Protection 1435 Imaging Operation and Infrastructure 1816 Projection X-ray Imaging 2177 Volumetric X-ray Imaging 2438 Nuclear Medicine 2719 Ultrasonography 30510 Magnetic Resonance Imaging 339Index 453

EHSAN SAMEI, PHD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE, is a Professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA, with appointments in Radiology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Medical Physics. DONALD J. PECK, PHD, DABR, FAAPM, FACR, is Professor of Practice in Medical Informatics at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, and Senior Staff Physicist in the Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Hendee’s Physics of Medical Imaging, 5th Edition is written with clear and focused academic language…and will be very useful both for students and lecturers on the subject.Congratulations to both authors for the excellent textbook.- Slavik Tabakov, King’s College London, UK, Immediate Past President IOMP (International Organization of Medical Physics)

• Foreword ixCommentary by William Hendee xiClarification and Acknowledgment xiiiIntroduction: The Role of Imaging in Medicine xv1 Physics of Radiation and Matter 12 Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology in Imaging 553 Imaging Science 894 Radiobiology, Dosimetry, and Protection 1435 Imaging Operation and Infrastructure 1816 Projection X-ray Imaging 2177 Volumetric X-ray Imaging 2438 Nuclear Medicine 2719 Ultrasonography 30510 Magnetic Resonance Imaging 339Index 453