TY - BOOK AU - Birkfellner,Wolfgang TI - Applied medical image processing (with CD): a basic course SN - 9781439824443 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - RC78.7.D53 B575 2011 U1 - 616.0754 BIR/App 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Boca Raton PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Diagnostic imaging KW - Diagnostic Imaging KW - methods KW - Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted KW - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Given the rapid evolution of radiological imaging in the past four decades, medical image processing nowadays is an essential tool for clinical research. Applications range from research in neuroscience, biomechanics and biomedical engineering to clinical routine tasks such as the visualization of huge datasets provided by modern computed tomography systems in radiology, the manufacturing of patient-specific prostheses for orthopedic surgery, the precise planning of dose distributions in radiation oncology, the fusion of multimodal image data for therapymonitoring in internal medicine, and computer-aided neurosurgical interventions"--Provided by publisher ER -