Adler A.M., Carlton R.R. Introduction to Radiologic and Imaging Sciences and Patient Care

Boston: Elsevier, 2016. — 926 p.It has now been over 20 years and 6 editions since we first published Introduction to Radiologic and Imaging Sciences and Patient Care. We continue to be pleased with the success of the book, because it was quickly adopted in radiologic and imaging science classrooms, and we continue to receive comments and suggestions from our colleagues as they make it part of their teaching. We have been delighted with the success of many of our contributing authors over the years, and we think you will find this new edition to be no exception in the quality and relevance of their coverage of the critical issues for beginning clinical practice in our field.We are always pleased when we are contacted by a teacher and even more pleased when we are contacted by a student in regard to this book. We encourage you to email, phone, write, or simply come up and talk with us at professional meetings. We consider dialogue with you to be absolutely.critical to improving our profession, and we do value each and every comment, suggestion, correction, or improvement that you can provide. As with all our new editions, there are numerous updates, clarifications, expanded coverage, and new topics that we added as a result of the commentary we received from students and faculty.We remain committed to providing a reasonably priced but comprehensive introduction to our profession. We continue to strive to provide the breadth necessary to permit well-informed and properly oriented students their first real clinical practice. We attempt to sufficiently pry open the.doors to technical areas so that students will respect not only what they know but how much they don't know as well. We have found that the most dangerous person in a school may well be the first-year student who has had an introduction to psychology but has not yet glimpsed the vast depth of knowledge in this field. He or she runs around trying to apply elementary concepts in interpersonal relationships just enough to thoroughly damage friendships with anyone foolish enough to take their advice. The danger, of course, is not in what the student knows, but in the failure to appreciate what they do not know. We hope we have avoided setting anyone up for this error by treating our readers as serious new professionals, who are perfectly capable of deducing the potential dangers of the clinical environment while at the same time beginning to learn how to function competently in a manner that begins to make a contribution to our field.The major changes you will find in the sixth edition include the following:
Updates made consistent with the Fundamentals and Patient Care sections of the ASRT core curriculum.
Separation of two large chapters into four more manageably sized chapters.
Updates on the current status of digital imaging instrumentation.