Syllabus - Medical Imaging Techniques (BM703 (C))
Biomedical Engineering
Medical Imaging Techniques (BM703 (C))
VII
Unit 1
Ultra Sound In Medicine
Introduction, production of ultra-Sonics - 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 Color flow mapping - Application of diagnostic ultra sound.
Unit 2
X-Ray computed imaging - scanner tomography
Principles of sectional configuration - data acquisition system - image formation principles - conversion of x-ray data in to scan image - 2D image reconstruction techniques - Iteration and Fourier methods.
Unit 3
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Principles of MRI – pulse sequence- image acquisition and reconstruction techniques – MRI instrumentation – magnets – gradient system – RF coils- receiver system – Functional MRI -Application of MRI.
Unit 4
Radio isotope imaging
Rectilinear scanners, linear scanners - SPECT - PET - Gamma Camera - Radionuclide for imaging, Emission Computed Tomography.
Unit 5
Infra-red Imaging
Physics of thermography - Imaging systems - Pyro electric vidicon camera – clinical thermography - liquid crystal thermography.
Practicals
Reference Books
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The Physics of Medical Imaging by S. Webb, Adam Highler, Bristol
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Principle of Computed Tomography by A. C. Kak, IEEE Press New York
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Medical Image Formation Perception and Measurement by G. A. Hay. John Wiley & Sons Ltd (March 9, 1977)