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

  • The Physics of Medical Imaging by S. Webb, Adam Highler, Bristol

  • Principle of Computed Tomography by A. C. Kak, IEEE Press New York

  • Medical Image Formation Perception and Measurement by G. A. Hay. John Wiley & Sons Ltd (March 9, 1977)