Syllabus - MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS (BM804)

Ultrasound in Medicine

Introduction, production of ultrasonics - properties - principles of image formation, capture and display, principles of A-mode , B-mode and M-mode display, principles of scan conversion, doppler ultra sound and colour flow mapping, application of diagnostic ultrasound.

X-Ray Computed Tomography

Principles of sectional imaging, scanner configuration, data acquisition system, image formation principles, conversion of X-ray data into scan image, 2D image reconstruction techniques - iteration and Fourier transform methods.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)

Principles of MRI, pulse sequence, image acquisition and reconstruction techniques, MRI instrumentation: magnets, gradient system, RF coils, MRI. receiver applications functional system, MRI, of

Radio Isotope Imaging

Rectilinear and scanners, SPECT, PET, gamma camera, radionuclide for imaging, emission computed tomography.

Infra-Red Imaging

Physics of thermography, imaging systems, pyro electric vidicon camera, clinical thermograph, liquid crystal thermography.