CHAPTER 1
Recognizing Anything
An Introduction to Imaging Modalities
From Darkness ... Light
Conventional Radiography
The Five Basic Densities
Computed Tomography
Ultrasonography
Magnetic Resonance lmaging
Fluoroscopy
Nuclear Medicine
Conventions Used inThis Book
CHAPTER 2
Recognizing a Technically Adequate Chest Radiograph
Evaluating the Chest Radiograph forTechnical Adequacy
CHAPTER 3
Recognizing Normal Pulmonary Anatomy
The Normal Frontal Chest Radiograph
Normal PulmonaryVasculature
The Normal Lateral Chest Radiograph
Normal CT Anatomy of the Chest
Normal CT Anatomy of the Lungs
The Fissures
CHAPTER 4
Recognizing Normal Cardiac Anatomy
Evaluating the Heart on Chest Radiographs
General Principles
Evaluating the Heart on Cardiac CT
Normal Cardiac CT Anatomy
Uses of Cardiac CT
Cardiac MRI
CHAPTER 5
Recognizing Airspace versus Interstitial Lung Disease
Classifying Parenchymal Lung Disease
Characteristics of Airspace Disease
Some Causes of Airspace Disease
Characteristics of Interstitial Lung Disease
Some Causes of Interstitial Lung Disease
CHAPTER 6
Recognizing the Causes of an Opacified Hemithorax
Atelectasis of the Entire Lung
Massive Pleural Effusion
Pneumonia of an Entire Lung
Postpneumonectomy
CHAPTER 7
Recognizing Atelectasis
What is Atelectasis?
Types of Atelectasis
Patterns of Collapse in Lobar Atelectasis
HowAtelectasis Resolves