Biomedical Imaging

An important component of the recent development in biomedical engineering is medical/biomedical imaging. This chapter provides in‐depth coverage of the field of biomedical imaging, with particular attention to an engineering viewpoint. More specifically, it covers the fundamentals and applications of primary medical imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, nuclear medicine, X‐ray/computed tomography (CT), molecular imaging, and others. The physical principles, equipment design, data acquisition, image reconstruction techniques, and clinical applications of each modality are presented. Recent hybrid developments such as multislice spiral computed tomography or fused and combined imaging techniques are also discussed.