Medical Image Acquisition: Static to Digital World
Overview: Early radiology was embedded in morphology, namely skeletal morphology. The change towards image of physiology of the human body began with nuclear medicine. With this transformation approach the ability to not only display presence of diseases but also the mechanism of disease and the biology of treatment. In the midst of the excitement brought about by the Roentgen’s discovery, Becquerel discovered radioactivity in the early 1896. Thus began the dawn of the nuclear age. Similar to the discovery of x-rays, the discovery of phosphorescence was accidental. Becquerel had placed some photographic plates in a drawer with some crystals of uranium. Upon retrieving the plates, he found that the plates had been exposed. He deduced that exposure must have been from rays of a radioactive source i.e; the uranium crystals. Over the years numerous scientists such as the Curies and Rutherford had contribute to the advancement of nuclear medicine. The use of single-photon emission computed ...