Chapter contents I. COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANS 50 A. Computed tomography: axial cranial bone anatomy 50 B. Computed tomography: coronal cranial bone anatomy 56 C. Computed tomography: sagittal cranial bone anatomy…
Intracranial anatomy is highly complex and well beyond the scope of this book. However, a number of structures are closely related to visual function and form the neural pathways for…
Magnetism is a property of matter. It results from electrons orbiting around atoms, and these spinning electrons cause the atom to have a magnetic moment. The magnetic field strength is…
The skull is composed of two segments, the cranium and the face. The cranium is the major portion and it consists of three unpaired bones, the sphenoid, occipital, and ethmoid…
In 1895 the German physicist Wilhem Konrad Röntgen discovered X-rays. He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901 for this discovery. Medical imaging based on this technology…
