Imaging Systems in Radiology

In chapter 9 we introduce the concept of digital images as a fundamental datatype that, because of its ubiquity, must be considered in many applications. We define biomedical imaging informatics as the study of methods for generating, manipulating, managing, and integrating images in many biomedical applications.We describe many of the methods for generating and manipulating images, particularly as applied to the brain, and discuss the relationship of these methods to structural informatics.