Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

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, Ricardo Nuno Pereira Verga e Afonso Vigário

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.

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