Content
- Preface
- About the authors.
- Sponsors
- PART I: Introduction
- PART II: Propagation and size reduction in medical imaging
- PART III: Effects of Radiation in Medical Imaging
- PART IV Medical Imaging: Security Approaches
- PART V: Communication with patients and collaborative decision-making
- CHAPTER VI Conclusion
- Phone book
Preface
Since the beginning of medical imaging and radiation therapy, which dates back hundreds of years, there has been a significant and quick advancement in the science and technology of these fields. Additionally, the field is advancing toward greater integration as the process of planning, managing, monitoring, and evaluating radiation treatment increasingly incorporates imaging tools.
The complexity and automation of today’s imaging and radiation treatment technology make it challenging for clinic managers (physicians and techs) to fully understand the care a patient is receiving. Medical professionals are obligated to provide patient care in the clinical setting in the most effective and efficient manner possible. The best at technology and its uses, they have the most responsibilities.
Nevertheless, physicists do not find the growing obligations in the field of therapeutic imaging and radiation problematic. The majority of physicists are experts in radiation or medical imaging. Reading scientific journals and going to scientific conferences are two of the ways that they continue to improve their expertise in these areas. However, their obligations will exceed their level of expertise in the subject matter. Physicists must be prepared to perform these tasks, stay up-to-date on the latest discoveries in medical imaging and radiation, and operate at the intersection of these two domains.
How can we accomplish these objectives?
Pawlicki, Ervin B. Podgorsak, Elke Reitzel, Anthony B. Wolbarst, and Ellen D. Yorke were among the medical physicists who discussed this challenge during the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Minneapolis in 2007. Taylor & Francis Publishers hosted the meeting.
The panel of medical physicists included Arthur L. Boyer, Joseph O. Easy, and C.-M. This article concludes that Taylor & Francis should launch a bibliography, focusing each volume on the rapidly expanding fields of clinical medicine or radiation treatment that clinicians are interested in. For the purpose of providing medical professionals with the information they need to grasp constantly emerging technology and the requirements to deliver better and more efficient care, the objective of each chapter is to present as much information as possible.
Every volume in the series is edited by one or more experts who are widely regarded as having experience in the technical-logical topic that is covered by the book under consideration.
Editorial staff members are accountable for the manual selection of chapter authors and for ensuring that each chapter is comprehensive and easily comprehensible to the average person. According to the book series, a group of audio writers and chapter authors expressed enthusiasm and emphasized the importance of scientists in the field. This specifically relates to the luncheon in Minneapolis.
Since Lou Chosen, the Chief Executive Officer of Taylor & Francis, is the director of this video series about diagnostic and therapeutic medicine, it would not be possible to produce it without his generous support. The successful management of the entire project is the responsibility of the authors and editors; I, in particular, assume this responsibility.
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