X-ray Image Quality and Radiation Safety

Chapter 13: Image Quality
Chapter 14: Radiation doses and safety

These chapters explain key concepts in medical imaging physics, focusing on image quality and radiation safety. Image quality is described through factors like density, spatial resolution, contrast, latitude, unsharpness, and noise, discussing how these are affected by various technical parameters and imaging system components. The discussion on radiation covers different ways to measure and quantify radiation doses (exposure, absorbed dose, dose equivalent, effective dose, and effective dose equivalent), acceptable dose limits for radiation workers and the public, typical patient doses from common procedures, natural and human-made radiation sources, and strategies for reducing patient dose. The text also briefly touches upon shielding principles for different types of radiation.

Radiologic Physics by Nickoloff, Edward L – Ahmad, Naveed.