Advances in Film Processing Systems Technology and Quality Control in Medical Imaging
Author: Arthur G. HausISBN: 9781930524019
Published: 2001 | 245 pp. | Hardcover
OUT OF PRINT
Medical Physics | August 2001
This new book Advances in Film Processing Systems Technology and Quality Control in Medical Imaging, edited by A.G. Haus, from Medical Physics Publishing in Madison, WI, presents a major update to the previously published Film Processing in Medical Imaging published in 1992. The current volume has significant new material on film emulsion (R.E. Dickerson), processing chemistry (R.T. Cataldi), and processor technology (K.W. Oemcke), as well as darkroom design considerations (S.J. Pflanz and K.M. Cleland). There is additional new material concerning NEXT surveys and MQSA inspection requirements relating to film processing are discussed, and material from the ACR Mammography Quality Control Manual is reproduced (P.F. Butler). New information on dry media imaging (Anderson) and laser imaging (E. Donaldson), which is particularly important for providing hard copy of digital images is presented. There is also new information on film processor performance in a clinical environment (Barnes) as well as film and processor selection and optimization (R.E. Hendrick and E. Berns). Other important sections deal with the role of the medical physicist (R.J. Pizzutiello) and the role of the technologist (S.M. Jaskulski) in processor quality control and trouble shooting. There is also an interesting and well-illustrated discussion on the history of film processing and on the relationship of image quality factors in film processing and radiation dose (Haus). This attractively presented work has excellent illustrations and provides a comprehensive index and glossary, and each of the chapters contains many useful references. Dr. Daniel Kopans, Director of Breast Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard medical School, has written an introduction to the material presented. This book will be a valuable resource in the library of diagnostic imaging physicists, senior radiologic technologists, diagnostic radiologists, and many others who have an interest in the presentation of optimized images on film."
Lawrence N. Rothenberg, Ph.D.
Lawrence N. Rothenberg, Ph.D., is a Board Certified diagnostic imaging physicist in the Department of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with special interest in mammography and computed tomography.