EBM 503: Term Paper on Image Acquisition and Enhancement by Use of Ionizing Radiation

Term paper on image acquisition and enhancement in the x-ray and computed tomographic scanner modalities: how the medical image is formed as a distribution of physical attributes of the body captured by an acquisition system, the x-ray production and the interaction with tissue, the detectors and the acquisition chain, the artefacts and noise that follow, and the enhancement applied to the acquired image.