Basic mathematics -- Radiation concepts -- Electricity -- Electromagnetism -- X-ray equipment -- The X-ray tube -- X-ray production -- Radiation protection concepts and equipment -- Radiation protection procedures for patients and personnel -- Filtration -- The prime factors -- X-ray interactions -- Minimizing patient dose -- Vision and perception -- Beam restriction -- The patient as a beam emitter -- The pathology problem -- The grid -- Radiologic film -- Film processing -- Film sensitometry -- Intensifying screens and film/screen combinations -- Digital radiography -- Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) -- The imaging process -- Density / image receptor exposure -- Contrast -- Recorded detail -- Distortion -- The art of image critique -- Quality management -- Exposure systems -- Automatic exposure controls -- Exposure conversion problems -- Mobile radiography -- Fluoroscopy -- Tomography and digital tomosynthesis -- Mammography -- Bone densitometry -- Vascular imaging equipment -- Computed tomography -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Nuclear medicine and PET scanning -- Radiation therapy -- Diagnostic medical sonography -- Appendix A: On a new kind of rays -- Appendix B: Answers to case studies -- Appendix F: Epigraph sources and credits -- Glossary -- Index.