Description:

The course covers the principles, design and properties of currently used medical imaging devices. We shall deal with 2D microscopic, X-ray and ultrasound imaging systems, including advanced topics such as Doppler ultrasound. We will also study tomographic (3D) imaging systems: computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) including functional MRI (fMRI) and nuclear imaging methods (PET,SPECT).

For more information see https://cw.fel.cvut.cz/wiki/courses/zsl

Contents:

1. Microscopy
2. Multimodal image registration
3. X-rays
4. Computed tomography
5. Ultrasound
6. Ultrasound II
7. (Easter, no lecture)
8. Physics of MRI
9. MRI imaging
10. MRI hardware
11. MRI applications
12. Functional brain imaging, fMRI
13. PET+SPECT
14. Other imaging techniques

Seminar contents:

Theoretical and practical examples of the imaging modalities presented in the lectures.

Recommended literature:

[1] Cho, Z.H., Jones, J.P., Singh, M.: Foundations of Medical Imaging. John Wiley&Sons, Inc., New York 1993
[2] Ed. S Webb The Physics of Medical Imaging. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing (IoP). 1988
[3] Bronzino, J. D. The Biomedical Engineering Handbook. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 1995
[4] Webb A., Introduction to Biomedical Imaging. IEEE press.2003
[5] Sonka M., Fitzpatrick J. M., Handbook of Medical Imaging, vol.2. SPIE Press, 2000

Keywords:

medical imaging, microscopy, X-rays, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission tomography (SPECT), ultrasound.

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar