Imagiology
Code
10535
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Física
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Mário António Basto Forjaz Secca
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
70
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
To give the students a good knowledge of the physical principles and clinical applications of the main techniques for Medical Imaging, with special incidence on Magnetic Resonance.
Prerequisites
Medical Imaging Methods
Subject matter
A. Medical Image and Digital Image.
B. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1. Basic Physics and Mathematics concepts. 2. Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. 3. Biological principles of the MR parameters. 4. Imagem formation adn k space. 5. Fast images. 6. Image characteristics and contrast factors. 7. Contrast agents. 8. Angiography and Cardia Imaging 9. Advanced techniques of: – Diffusion, Perfusion, Functional imaging. 10. Spectroscopy 11. Image processing adn quantitative imaging. 12. Artifacts 13. Instrumentation 14. Security and Biological effects of MRI.
C. Comparasion and clinical applications of the various techniques.
Bibliography
"MRI. From Picture to Proton" Donald W. Robbie, Elizabeth A. Moore, Martin J. Graves, Martin R. Prince. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.
"Magnetic Resonance in Medicine" Peter Rinck. Blackwell Science, Berlin, 2001.
"An Introduction to the Principles of Medical Imaging" Chris Guy and Dominic Ffytche. Imperial College Press, London, 2000
"Medical Physics: Imaging" Jean Pope. Heinmann Educational Publishers, Oxford, 1999
"Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering" BH Brown, RH Smallwood, DC Barber, PV Lawford and SD Hose. Institute of Physics Publishin, Bristol, 1999.
"Introduction to Biomedical Engineering" John Enderle, Susan Blanchard and Joseph Bronzino. Academic Press, SanDiego, 2000.
Teaching method
The course has lectures complemented by practical classes of the basic principles of the technique of Magnetic Resonance, image examples, discussion of some concrete clinical images and medical imaging processing.
Evaluation method
Assessment in two phases:
– Practical assessment during the last week of teaching.
– Theoretical assessment through an exam with questions covering the material presented in the lectures.
The final grade will be calculated using 30% of the practical assessment grade and 70% of the exam grade.