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Medical Imaging (Health and Medical Issues Today) - Hardcover

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Levine, Harry

 
9780313359699: Medical Imaging (Health and Medical Issues Today)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0313359695 ISBN 13: 9780313359699
Verlag: Greenwood, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

A prize-winning medical writer offers an explanation of modern diagnostic medical imaging technologies-and the issues that result from their use and misuse.

Medical Imaging describes the discovery and development of diagnostic imaging technologies, explaining how the technologies work and exploring some of the issues that such powerful and expensive technologies create. The book begins with the discovery of X-rays in 1895 and traces the history of imaging technology through today's tools, such as X-ray computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional imaging by positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

The contribution of these expensive technologies to the rising cost of healthcare in the United States and the unequal distribution of imaging diagnostic facilities, particularly in developing countries, is also considered. In addition, the book explores ethical questions that have surfaced in the past, including the reportability of incidental findings during a scan and admissibility of medical images as evidence in courts of law , and such newly emerging issues as the application of imaging tools in lie detection and the mammography guidelines controversy of 2009.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harry LeVine III, PhD, is associate professor in the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Chandler School of Medicine at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. He is the author of the first edition of ABC-CLIO's Genetic Engineering.

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Verlag
Greenwood
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0313359695
ISBN 13 
9780313359699
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
226
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