Introduction to Medical Imaging Systems

Catalog description

This introductory course is aimed to cover the physics and math underlying the main medical imaging systems: computed tomography (CT) X-Ray, Ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Nuclear Medicine both positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). The course will cover how signals from these systems are formed and then used to create images of various organs/tissues in vivo. Through examples of biomedical applications, students will learn how images from each modality are used for diagnostic and research purposes. Concepts, such as Fourier Transform, Convolution, Smoothing, Signal-to-noise (SNR), spatial and temporal resolution, will be covered in the context of biomedical applications.