- Docente: Paola Berardi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: FIS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 9079)
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from Oct 02, 2024 to Dec 03, 2024
Learning outcomes
Students learn about CT equipment and imaging physical principles with regard on clinical applications, fundamentals on optimization of CT procedures, parameters, quality controls and dosimetry.
Course contents
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATION OF THE MAIN COMPONENTS OF CT SYSTEMS
EVOLUTION OF CT SYSTEMS UP TO THE STATE OF THE ART - SPIRAL CT - MULTILAYER CT
IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO ALL ACQUISITION TECHNIQUES - FILTERED BACK PROJECTION AND ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS
ARTIFACTS
IMAGE QUALITY
ADVANCED CLINICAL APPLICATIONS - CARDIO CT - DUAL ENERGY
MAIN RECONSTRUCTION OF CT IMAGES
Readings/Bibliography
Elementi di Tomografia Computerizzata https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-88-470-1697-2
Guida alla diagnostica per immagini con le tecniche computerizzate - Tomografia computerizzata ( TC ) - Risonanza magnetica ( RM ) Gavelli - Lentini (1999)
TOMOGRAFIA COMPUTERIZZATA: DESCRIZIONE E MISURA DEI PARAMETRI CARATTERISTICI Traduzione, revisione e integrazione del documento: “Measurement of the Performance Characteristics of Diagnostic X-ray Systems used in Medicine” Report N.32 IPEM - Part III: Computed Tomography X-ray Scanners - (II edition - 2003) - AIFM 2007
NORME CEI EN 61223-2-6 (1995)NCRP REPORT N. 99 (1988)
DROEGE ET AL, MED. PHYS. 10, 337-343 (1983)
KALENDER ET AL, MED.PHYS. 18, 910-915 (1991)
POLACIN ET AL, RADIOLOGY 185, 29-35 (1992)
POLACIN ET AL, MED.PHYS. 21, 133-140 (1994)
Teaching methods
Oral presentation
Assessment methods
Three questions about CT physics
Office hours
See the website of Paola Berardi
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.