BME 612 - Principles of Medical Imaging

3 Credit(s)

This course focuses on the basic physics and the mathematical descriptions of imaging principles for all major medical modalities: X-Ray, CT, MRI, SPECT/PET, US. The course presents a detailed analytical and quantitative illustration of the concepts of image resolution, SNR, and scan time, and an in-depth discussion of the problem between detected signal and image source for these major medical modalities.