Medical and Preclinical Imaging

Catalog description

This course teaches the fundamentals and applications of medical imaging techniques, including x-ray imaging and computed tomography, ultrasound imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and nuclear medicine. Through lectures, programming problem sets and lab tours, the class provides a rigorous introduction to medical imaging, beginning with the basic physical principles of image formation and then onto image reconstruction and descriptions of the hardware used in clinical applications. Concepts covered include resolution, point-spread-functions, modulation transfer functions, signal-to-noise ratio, Fourier transform, and image filtering in spatial domain.