Medical Imaging Physics

Used this book for a Medical Imaging class for biomedical engineering. It was really really good! The pictures are great, and the explanations are very in depth. Some of the material is difficult and can become exponentially harder depending on your professor, but for a general understanding of the physics behind all sorts of modalities (Except DoT) it is amazing. Definitely something you keep on your bookshelf collection of engineering material.

Physically the book was as expected. I brought it for, one of my class.

This was my first medical imaging book and I found it very easy to follow. It's getting a bit long in the tooth at this stage but it's a book where if you start from page 1 it will give you an excellent grounding in medical imaging physics and will allow you to explorer more advanced and newer avenues. Yes it is in black&white but it is also very concise and easy to follow. I definitely would recommend it to a physics student trying to learn about medical imaging for the first time.

Clearly the standard for imaging physics. Hendee and Bushberg are in a class of their own. The book arrived in good condition.

Excellent textbook for Graduate Students and Radiology Residents

I had to buy this book for a class. I was very disappointed.This edition has several typos and mistakes on the tables. The examples and problems sections are really irritating, sometimes they show a couple of equations and write 5 problems over the same equation over and over again, and I have found instances where the "answers to selected problems" section show incorrect information. There is very little physics that you can learn from those problems.It seems that it is hard to find good books on Medical Imaging, but I highly recommend "The essential physics of medical imaging" (Bushberg. et al.) This is a very good review of the imaging techniques but it is not very quantitative. A more quantitative book I would recommend is "Medical Imaging: signals and systems" by Jerry L. Price.If you have an option, don't waste your money on this book.

Great Book.

This text is excellent for Medical Physicists preparing for the first part of their ABR or ABMP exam. This book is also a very good text for teaching Radiology Residents. Radiology Residents currently (4/12/03), do not use calculators for their ABR exam therefore they do not need to know most of the calculations that are presented in this text. The chapter on Radiation Detectors is an excellent primer for medical physicists, health physicists and Biomedical engineers. My only criticism of the text is that the QA recommendations are not current and the MRI section does not address image quality enough detail.