NE 107 - Introduction to Imaging
Spring 2002, S. Prussin, J. Shepherd
TT 9:30-11:00, 3107 Etcheverry Hall
FINAL EXAM, 8:00-11:00, Tuesday, May 21, 2002
Textbook/Reference:
- Textbook: K. Shung, M. Smith, B. Tsui, Principles of Medical Imaging, Academic Press (1992)
- Reference: R. K. Hobbie, Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, AIP Press (1997)
- Reference: S. Webb, Ed., "The Physics of Medical Imaging", IOP Publishing (1996)
| Week/Lecture |
Day |
Date |
Topic |
Instructor |
| 1/1 |
Tuesday |
Jan 22 |
Course Introduction/General Introduction to Medical Imaging |
Prussin/Shepherd |
| REVIEW OF PHOTON INTERACTIONS, DETECTION, AND DOSIMETRY |
| Week/Lecture |
Day |
Date |
Topic |
Instructor |
| 1/2 |
Thursday |
Jan 24 |
Photon Interactions with Matter. Attenuation Coefficients |
Shepherd |
| 2/3 |
Tuesday |
Jan 29 |
Radiation Dose Definitions, Dose Limits, Whole Body/Critical Organ Doses |
Shepherd |
| 2/4 |
Thursday |
Jan 31 |
X-Ray Sources and Principles of X-Ray Spectra |
Shepherd |
| 3/5 |
Tuesday |
Feb 5 |
General Principles of Photon Detection. General Principles of Scintillation Detectors |
Shepherd |
| THE PHYSICS OF X-RAY IMAGING |
| 3/6 |
Thursday |
Feb 7 |
X-Ray Image Formation: Analog and Digital Detectors |
Shepherd |
| 4/7 |
Tuesday |
Feb 12 |
Image Quality (Noise, Contrast, Spatial Resolution) |
Shepherd |
| 4/8 |
Thursday |
Feb 14 |
Noise and Image Perception |
Shepherd |
| 5/9 |
Tuesday |
Feb 19 |
Imaging Systems. Examples. Issues in Mammography |
Shepherd |
| 5/10 |
Thursday |
Feb 21 |
Tomographic Image Reconstruction/Filtered Backprojection |
Shepherd |
| 6/11 |
Tuesday |
Feb 26 |
X-Ray Computed Tomography I |
Shepherd |
| 6/12 |
Thursday |
Feb 28 |
X-Ray Computed Tomography II |
Shepherd |
| 7/13 |
Tuesday |
Mar 5 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
Prost |
| THE PHYSICS OF RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING |
| Week/Lecture |
Day |
Date |
Topic |
Instructor |
| 7/14 |
Thursday |
Mar 7 |
Introduction to Nuclear medicine |
Shepherd |
| 8/15 |
Tuesday |
Mar 12 |
The Anger Principle and Anger Camera |
Shepherd |
| 8/16 |
Thursday |
Mar 14 |
Planar Image Formation and Statistical Noise |
Shepherd |
| 9/17 |
Tuesday |
Mar 19 |
Collimators, Spatial Localization, and Spatial Resolution |
Shepherd |
| 9/18 |
Thursday |
Mar 21 |
Photon Scatter, Energy Discrimination, Image Contrast, Dynamic Imaging |
Shepherd |
| 10/19 |
Tuesday |
Mar 26 |
Spring Recess |
Shepherd |
| 10/20 |
Thursday |
Mar 28 |
Spring Recess |
Shepherd |
| 11/- |
Tuesday |
Apr 2 |
Nuclear Tomography - Instrumentation |
- |
| 11/- |
Thursday |
Apr 4 |
Nuclear Tomography - Image Reconstruction |
- |
| 12/21 |
Tuesday |
Apr 9 |
PET Imaging |
Shepherd |
| 12/22 |
Thursday |
Apr 11 |
MIDTERM II |
Prost |
| THE PHYSICS OF NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE |
| Week/Lecture |
Day |
Date |
Topic |
Instructor |
| 13/23 |
Tuesday |
Apr 16 |
Intro to Applied NMR Imaging |
Prussin |
| 13/24 |
Thursday |
Apr 18 |
Quantum Bulk Magnetization and Relaxation Processes |
Prussin |
| 14/25 |
Tuesday |
Apr 23 |
Spin-Lattice T1 and Spin-Spin T2 Relaxation Mode |
Prussin |
| 14/26 |
Thursday |
Apr 25 |
Pulse Sequences in NMR Imaging |
Prussin |
| 15/27 |
Tuesday |
Apr 30 |
Localization, Image Reconstruction, Multiplanar Imaging |
Prussin |
| 15/26 |
Thursday |
May 2 |
T1, T2 and Atom Density Weighting |
Prussin |
| 16/27 |
Tuesday |
May 7 |
Qualitative NMR Spectroscopy |
Prussin |
| 16/28 |
Thursday |
May 9 |
Qualitative NMR Spectroscopy |
Prussin |
