"This book is intended to provide medical radiography programs with an economical textbook that focuses on the practical aspects of digital radiography. Its scope is limited to information that will be pertinent to each graduating student as he or she enters into clinical practice. Nearly all textbooks to date claiming the title "digital radiography" have dealt primarily with the managerial aspects of the topic at the expense of any practical information on how digital imaging actually works and its clinical implications for the daily practice of radiography. In this textbook the focus is on digital topics and the facts stated with such brief explanatory material as each topic will allow. The goal of the author is to provide an accurate and adequate description of all the aspects of digital images and digital equipment, and their implications for radiographic technique and clinical application, but to do so in the most student-friendly way possible by providing crisp, clear illustrations along with readable text. Many digital topics are intimidating, and every attempt is made to reduce these topics to a descriptive, non-mathematical level that can be intuitively understood by the average student"-- Provided by publisher.

Nature of the digital radiograph -- Creating the latent image -- Qualities of the digital radiograph -- Radiographic technique for digital imaging -- Preprocessing and histogram analysis -- Rescaling (processing) the digital radiograph -- Default postprocessing I : gradation processing -- Default postprocessing II : detail processing -- Manipulating the digital image : operator adjustments -- Monitoring and controlling exposure -- Digital image acquisition -- Displaying the digital image -- Archiving patient images and information -- Digital fluoroscopy -- Quality control for digital equipment.