2019 - 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0555-3170-01 | Radiation and Imaging in Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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No. of hours: 4
Weight: 3.5
Prerequisites: Introduction to Signal Processing, Physics (2), Human Physiological
Systems (2)
Introduction, the interaction between radiation (electromagnetic, ultrasound) and tissue, x-rays (x-ray imaging and fluoroscopy, CT), nuclear medicine (scintigraphy, SPECT, PET), MRI (MR physics, pulse sequences and protocols, the scanner, applications of MRI), Ultrasound (US physics, the transducer, the image, main applications in medical imaging), OCT, electrical impedance imaging, thermal imaging.