Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"

  1. Teaching
  2. COMPUTER SCIENCE, BIOMEDICAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
  3. BIOMEDICS

Stampa

BIOMEDICS

Teaching schedule

Academic year: 
2015/2016
Belonging course: 
Course of Bachelor's Degree Programme on COMPUTER SCIENCE, BIOMEDICAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
Location: 
Napoli
Disciplinary sector: 
ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATICS BIOENGINEERING (ING-INF/06)
Credits: 
9
Year of study: 
2
Teachers: 
BASELICE FABIO
Cycle: 
Second semester
Hours of front activity: 
72

Language

Course description

Provide a basic knowledge of medical instrumentation.

Prerequisites

Signals

Syllabus

Basics of signal processing.
General image characteristics, data acquisition
and image reconstruction.
2D Fourier and Radon transform.
X-ray planar radiography and computed tomography. X-rays, instrumentation, image characteristics, backprojection algorithms.
Nuclear medicine: Planar scintigraphy, SPECT
and PET/CT. Radiations, instrumentation, signal processing.
Ultrasound imaging. Sound wave propagation, tarsducers, scanning modes, Doppler ultrasound.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Nucler magnetic resonance, scanner, acquisition sequences.

Teaching Methods

Textbooks

Cho, Jones, Sinch, Foundations of Medical Imaging, Wiley Interscience.
Smith, Webb, Introduction to Medical Imaging, Cambridge University press.

Learning assessment

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