A Patient's Guide to Medical Imaging

Ronald L. Eisenberg is an internationally renowned radiologist, who has authored 20 books in his medical specialty. Dr Eiseneberg received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and did his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (1969 - 1970) and UCSF (1973 - 1975). He is currently Chairman of Radiology at the Highland General Hospital in Oakland, CA and Clinical Professor of Radiology at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Radiology at UC Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, CA. A non-practicing attorney and author of Radiology and the Law, Dr. Eisenberg has also published five books in the field of Judaic Studies, including The Jewish World in Stamps and The Jewish Publication Society Guide to Jewish Traditions. Alexander R. Margulis immigrated from Yugoslavia after WW II, was accepted to Harvard Medical School where he graduated in 1950. He did his Radiology residency at the University of Michigan, was an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, served 2 years as a captain in the US. Army Medical Corps and was then.Assistant, Assocaite and Full professor at Washington University St. Louis MO. Dr Margulis was Pofessor and Chairman of the department of radiology, UCSF and is now Clinical Professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, NY. He has authored or edited 16 books and more than 400 peer-reviewed papers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
Roentgen and his discovery
Overview of the radiologic imaging process
Radiology personnel
Radiation exposure
Cost of imaging procedures
Health care reform

2. Conventional radiology
Plain radiographs
Portable radiographs
Fluoroscopy
Barium swallow
Modified barium swallow
Upper GI series
Small bowel series
Barium enema

3. Ultrasound
Special types of ultrasound
Obstetrical (fetal) ultrasound
Doppler ultrasound
Echocardiography

4. Computed tomography
Special types of CT
Chest CT
Abdominal CT
Head CT
Spine CT
Whole-body screening
Virtual colonoscopy

5. Magnetic resonance imaging
MR arthrography

6. Breast imaging
Mammography
Ultrasound
MRI
Biopsy

7. Nuclear medicine
Special types of nuclear medicine
Bone scan
Lung scan
Thyroid scan
Cardiac scan
PET and PET-CT

8. Angiography
Catheter angiography
CT angiography (CTA)
CT coronary angiography
CT pulmonary angiography
MR angiography (MRA)

9. Interventional radiology
Vascular procedures
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA)
Embolization
Tumor embolization
Chemoembolization
Uterine artery embolization
Thrombolysis
Venous access procedures
Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters
Non-vascular procedures
Needle-aspiration biopsy
Fluid aspiration and drainage
Tube placement
Tumor ablation
Vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty
Informed consent

10. Pediatric imaging

11. Miscellaneous studies
DEXA bone scanning
Hysterosalpingography

Glossary

Index