Fundamentals of Body CT
Fourth Edition
W. Richard Webb, MD
Chief, Thoracic Imaging, Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Emeritus Member, Haile Debas Academy of Medical Educators, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
William E. Brant, MD, FACR
Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Nancy M. Major, MD
Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Professor of Radiology, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, New York, Mainline Diagnostic Imaging, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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Webb, W. Richard (Wayne Richard), 1945- author.
Fundamentals of body CT / W. Richard Webb, William E. Brant, Nancy M. Major. -- Fourth edition.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-323-22146-7 (paperback : alk. paper)
I. Brant, William E., author. II. Major, Nancy M., author. III. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Tomography, X-Ray Computed. WN 206]
RC78.7.T6
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Dedication
To Jack and Cole, my grandsons.
They understand the value of fundamentals.
W.R.W.
To my wife and true companion, Barbara.
In memory of my daughter Rachel.
To our children and their spouses and our ten grandchildren: Evan, Finley, Sophia, Katie, Josie, Danielle, Dylan, Grayson, Amelia, and Noah.
W.E.B.
To Kennethit was meant to be.
N.M.M.
Preface
Despite the fact that we concentrate on the fundamentals in this book, the fundamentals keep changing along with advances in CT techniques and our improved understanding of various diseases. This new edition gives us the chance to update important topics and add new material, including a number of new, high-quality images. That is what we have attempted to do, without significantly increasing the size of the book or making it less accessible as a teaching tool.
The half-dozen or so years since the third edition was published have seen continued advances in helical CT techniques. In this edition, we review the various spiral/helical CT protocols currently used in clinical practice for the diagnosis of chest, abdominal, and musculoskeletal abnormalities. We have expanded discussions of high-resolution CT, lung nodule assessment and lung cancer screening, CT pulmonary embolism diagnosis, CT enterography, CT enteroclysis, CT colonography, and optimizing CT techniques in musculoskeletal diagnosis.
New topics, discussions of new diseases (too numerous to mention here), and new images have been added to all chapters, including updated descriptions and illustrations of normal anatomy and incidental findings. Disease classifications, including those for pulmonary adenocarcinoma, diffuse lung diseases, and pancreatic lesions, have been updated where appropriate.
We hope you enjoy and profit from our efforts.
W. Richard Webb
William E. Brant
Nancy M. Major
Preface to the First Edition
Instead of writing a text intended to record everything that is known about body CT or even everything that we know about body CT, we have attempted to write one that teaches how to perform and read body CT scans. In doing this, we have tried to limit ourselves to discussing what is key to understanding body CT from a practical clinical standpointthe key anatomy, the key concepts, the key diseases, and the key controversies. We have done this at the risk of leaving a few things out, but it isnt necessary to read about everything when you are first learning a subject. In other words, Fundamentals of Body CT is not intended to provide more than the best CT texts on the market do, but rather less, with a different emphasis, and in a more manageable package.
Each of us has written a different part of this book, obviously depending on our areas of expertise. Since each of us teaches in a slightly different way, each of the three sections of the bookthe thorax, the abdomen, and the musculoskeletal systemis somewhat different in approach. We hope that by preserving our individual styles we have made the book more interesting to read, and for us, it certainly made this book easier to write.
