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Die Angst vor Brustkrebs ist berechtigt, da es sich um die haufigste Krebserkrankung der Frau handelt. Manchmal wird diese Angst gezielt geschurt, das Risiko bewusst ubertrieben. Wer aber sollte Interesse haben, diese Furcht auszunutzen? Welche Folgen hat das fur Frau und Gesellschaft? Dieses Buch beschreibt nicht nur einen Koerperteil, der als Krankheitsort fur Betroffene, Angehoerige, AErzte und Pharmaindustrie unterschiedliche Bedeutung gewinnen kann. Es skizziert die Brust auch als Symbol, d...

Featuring chapters from specialists in endocrinology, physiology, pathology, and nuclear medicine, this book provides a multidisciplinary approach to a wide variety of issues concerning somatostatin and its analogues. The book: Provides the most up-to-date coverage of somatostatin analog use in diagnostic and therapyIntegrating the specialties of endocrinology, physiology, pathology, and nuclear medicine, providing the multidisciplinary approach to the topicFocuses on future applications, nove...

Solid-State Imaging with Charge-Coupled Devices covers the complete imaging chain: from the CCD's fundamentals to the applications. The book is divided into four main parts: the first deals with the basics of the charge-coupled devices in general. The second explains the imaging concepts in close relation to the classical television application. Part three goes into detail on new developments in the solid-state imaging world (light sensitivity, noise, device architectures), and part four...

This LNCS conference volume constitutes the proceedings of the MICCAI Workshop GRAIL 2023 and MICCAI Challenge OCELOT 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 23, and October 4, 2023. The 9 full papers (GRAIL 2023) and 6 full papers (OCELOT  2023) included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from GRAIL 14 (GRAIL 2023) and 6 (OCELOT 2023) submissions. The conference GRAIL 2023 a wide set of methods and application and OCELOT 2023 focuses on th...

PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) consist of image acquisition devices, storage archiving units, display stations, computer processors, and database management systems integrated within a communications network for the purpose of acquiring, storing, viewing, manipulating, and communicating diagnostic images and related information. This book aims to provide an introductory primer on PACS technology and applications. Topics include: industrial standards; image archiving; database...

Digital images have several benefits, such as faster and inexpensive processing cost, easy storage and communication, immediate quality assessment, multiple copying while preserving quality, swift and economical reproduction, and adaptable manipulation. Digital medical images play a vital role in everyday life. Medical imaging is the process of producing visible images of inner structures of the body for scientific and medical study and treatment as well as a view of the function of interior tis...

The Pathology and Imaging of Coronavirus Pneumonia is a comprehensive study of the coronavirus family-related pulmonary diseases, specifically targeting the three subtypes of coronaviruses that have been confirmed to infect humans: SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. It is based on heterogeneous data from imaging and clinical sources, and particularly emphasizes the imaging-based staging diagnostic model rooted in the pathogenic and pathological aspects of clinical staging, thereby aiming to better align...