Bachelor's Degree in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year
SCIENZE DELLA PREVENZIONE RADIOPROTEZIONE E CONTROLLI DI QUALITA'
Teaching Staff
CARLO TRIGONA - Module MISURE ELETTRICHE ED ELETTRONICHE - ING-INF/07 - 2 CFUOffice: DIEEI - Cittadella Universitaria
Phone: 095 738 111
Office Hours: Giovedì dalle ore 11.00 alle ore 13.00
ANNA MARIA GUELI - Module The physics of instrumentation and devices - FIS/07 - 2 CFU
Office: Cittadella Universitaria - Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio 6 - Studio T09 - via Santa Sofia 64 - 95123 Catania
Phone: 095 378 5354
Office Hours: Martedì dalle 11.00 alle 13.00 e il giovedì dalle 16.00 alle 18.00; si consiglia comunque di contattare il docente in anticipo per verificare che impegni istituzionali o personali non lo costringano a spostare il ricevimento di un giorno specifico
Detailed Course Content
- The physics of instrumentation and devices
X-ray production and properties: fundamentals. X-ray tube design. The X-ray spectrum. Electrical characteristics. The supply generator. Control circuits. Exposure control.
Interactions of X- and gamma radiation with matter. Photon attenuation and absorption coefficients. Interactions with atom. Subject contrast. Radiation dose. Detectors.
Analog images. Vision. Image detector surface. Image quality factors. Scatter and grids. Image quality measurement.
The digital image. Signal input. The image matrix. Digital image quality. Digital image processing. Digital image detectors: computed radiography. Direct radiography. Digital fluorography.
Computed tomography. Basic sequential scanner design. Single slice helical/spiral computed tomogaphy. Multislice spiral computed tomography. Computed tomography. radiation dose.
Magnetic resonance: principles. The proton in a magnetic field. Relaxation time constants. Pulse sequences. T1 and T2 signal measurement. Magnetic resonance imaging.
Textbook Information
- The physics of instrumentation and devices
Dowsett David J., Kenny Patrick A., Johnston R. Eugene, The Physics of Diagnostics Imaging, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
Lecture notes provided during the course.
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