Medical Imaging: Signals and Systems (Prince, J.L. and Links, J.M.; 2006) [Book Review]

This well-written book on medical imaging is organized into five parts and, in total, consists of 13 chapters emphasizing key overall conceptual divisions. Part 1 ( "Basic Imaging Principles") provides much of the background material needed to follow the rest of the book. Part 2 covers radiographic imaging in three chapters, Part 3 presents nuclear medicine in three chapters; Part 4 addresses ultrasound imaging in two chapters, and Part 5 discusses magnetic resonance imaging in the last two chapters. At the end of each chapter, a "summary and key concepts" sections reviews the main ideas and lists important references. The text also provides numerous examples and homework exercise problems as well as online instructor resources. Overall, the four key features of the book - a good balance of content, a wealth of images and diagrams for presenting key concepts of medical imaging, numerous motivational and biologically relevant examples, and rich online instructor resources - make the nook a very attractive and useful textbook for an upper-level undergraduate course or a graduate-level course in biomedical imaging. Since the book approaches the biomedical imaging topics from a signal processing perspective, it is probably most appropriate for engineering students.