|
This manual is the second in the diagnostic imaging series. Itbegins by providing the reader with a grounding in the variousimaging modalities: radiography, ultrasonography, computedtomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine andinterventional radiological procedures. The second section is devoted to the individual body systems andincludes chapters dedicated to the heart and major vessels, thelungs, the mediastinum, the pleural space and the thoracicboundaries. To aid the reader with information retrieval, eachanatomical region is approached in the following way: radiographicanatomy and variations; interpretive principles; and diseases.Information on diseases is further subdivided into sectionscovering radiographic findings and the results and interpretationof other imaging studies. Each of the chapters is accompanied by awealth of images, demonstrating both the normal radiographicappearance of structures and the abnormalities associated withdisease. Specially commissioned illustrations provide an extradimension.
|
