2. Medical Imaging System BME 330 Lecture 0: Opening
Professor Nahed Solouma

3. Objectives
By the end of this semester, the student should be understand and know:
The general image characteristics
The physics, mathematics, instrumentation and clinical applications of
Optical imaging system
X-ray planar radiography and computed tomography
Ultrasound imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging
Nuclear imaging

4. References Principal Introduction to Medical Imaging Secondary
Physics, Engineering and Clinical Applications
Nadine Brrie Smith and Anderow Webb
Secondary
Foundation of Medical Imaging Zang-Hee Cho, Joie P. Jones, Manbir Singh
Medical Imaging Physics
William R. Hendee, E. Russel Rintenour

5. Assignments and performance
Assessment Method
Week
Assessment
% total
Date 7
First Exam 15 12
Second Exam
All
Assignments and performance 20
Graded Lab work 10
Final Exam 40
Overall Total
100

6. Course Outline Introduction: Optical imaging system:
Definition of imaging
Image characteristics
Historical overview of medical imaging
Importance of medical imaging
Classification of medical imaging
Optical imaging system:
Basics and the pinhole camera
Endoscopy
Ophthalmoscope and the fundus camera
Introduction to OCT
Recent trends in optical imaging.

7. Course Outline, cont. X-ray planar imaging Computed Tomography
Physics of X-ray, x-ray tube and x-ray spectrum
Interaction of x-ray with biological tissues
X-ray linear and mass attenuation coefficients
Instrumentation for planar radiography
X-ray detectors
Quantitative characteristics of planar X-ray images
X-ray contrast agents
Clinical applications of planar X-ray imaging
Computed Tomography
Instrumentation for CT
Image reconstruction in CT
Clinical applications of CT

8. Course Outline, cont. Ultransound imaging Physics of ultrasound
Interaction of ultrasound with biological tissues
Transducers (single element and arrays)
Clinical diagnostic scanning modes: A-mode, M- mode, B-mode and compound scanning.
Ultrasound image characteristics.
Clinical applications
Doppler imaging

9. Course Outline, cont. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
Instrumentation of MRI
Image acquisition
The k-space formalism and image reconstruction
Functional MRI
MRI contrast agents
Image characteristics
Lipid suppression techniques
Clinical applications

10. Course Outline, cont. Nuclear imaging (PET and SPECT)
Radioactivity and radiotracer half-life
Properties of radiotracers for nuclear medicine
The gamma camera
Image characteristics
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
Positron emission tomography (PET)
Clinical applications of nuclear imaging