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SECTION 1 Fundamentals 1. Principles of medical imaging Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 2. Atoms and matter Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 3. Classical physics principles - energy, force, matter and heat Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 4. Units of measurement Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 5. Electricity Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 6. Magnetism and electromagnetism Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 7. X-ray circuit components Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 8. The laws of modern physics Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 9. Electromagnetic radiations Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 10. Radioactivity Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major SECTION 2 Applications 11. X-ray production Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 12. The diagnostic X-ray tube Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 13. X-ray attenuation Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 14. Properties of X-ray beams Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 15. Digital radiography: computed radiography and digital radiography systems Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 16. Exposure factors and the digital radiographic image Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 17. Mobile, portable and dental X-ray systems Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 18. Mammography Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 19. Fluoroscopy Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 20. Computed tomography scanning Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 21. Radiation dosimetry and protection Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 22. The gamma camera Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 23. Positron emission tomography and single photon emission computed tomography Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 24. Ultrasound imaging Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 25. Magnetic resonance imaging Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 26. Hybrid scanners Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 27. Medical Informatics and radiology Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 28. Artificial Intelligence Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 29. Safety and protection for non-ionising radiations Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major 30. Putting it all together - showing tissues with science Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major SECTION 3 Appendices and tables Appendix A: Mathematics for radiography Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Appendix B: Modulation transfer function Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Appendix C: Signal-to-noise ratio Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Appendix D: International System of base units Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Table A: Powers of 10 Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Table B: Physical constants Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Table C: Important conversion factors Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Table D: Greek symbols and their common usage Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Table E: The periodic table of elements Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Table F: Electron configuration of the elements Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Self-Test Questions Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major Self-Test Answers Andrew England, Louise Hadley and Victoria Major

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