Title of Course: Imaging
Exam number: XM 2530
Length of course: 2 hours per week
Type of course: lecture
Language: English
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. H. Botterweck
Learning outcome: The students become acquainted with the most important medical imaging modalities. The starting point of the lectures are the physical principles and their technological realization. However, advanced knowledge shall be acquired in the proper usage and processing of the found data. The students learn about image optimization and quality assessment concerning diagnostic as well as therapeutic applications. This establishes a relation to the lectures "Image Processing" (Buzug) and "Numerical methods in Medicine" (Botterweck) - but here the emphasis is on the technical conditions, restrictions and opportunities of the devices and images. The students shall be able to translate the medical users' requirements into the language of engineers. Knowledge about lecturer´s current research projects
Course Requirements: signal processing, mathematical and medical basics
Content:

• Overview: the task of medical imaging in diagnostics and intervention, quality criteria.
• Physical principles of imaging (waves and radiation, interaction with matter, detection and data processing)
• Ultrasound: from 1-D to „4-D“, Doppler methods
• Magnetic Resonance: principles and new developments
• 2D-transmission: radiography and fluoroscopy
• Tomographic imaging: optimizing data acquisition for reconstruction
• Nuclear Medicine: emission tomography
• Functional and „molecular“ imaging
• Optical method

Recommended Literature:

• W. Hendee, „Medical Imaging Physics“, 4.ed., Wiley 2002
• St. Webb, „The physics of Medical Imaging“, IOP, 1988
  

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