Module Code - Title:
ME4188
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BIO-IMAGING
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Provide the biomedical engineers with basic understanding in bio-imaging, including X-ray, ultrasound, magnetic resonance and nuclear medicine
Syllabus:
This module seeks to introduce basic physics of X-ray imaging and computed tomography, nuclear medicine, ultrasound imaging and magnetic resonance imaging as well as image analysis used to process these images. The students are given insight in the application areas of these imaging techniques in the hospital and in research settings. The image processing section will start with principles of signal processing, where after the same principles will be generalized to images in 2D and 3D. The lectures are complemented by tutorials that help students integrate the material presented in the lectures. Lab exercises further enhance the skills in using the principles in practical settings.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
1. discriminate the different interactions of X-rays with tissue,
and distinguish applications of radiography: mammography, abdominal and bone scans, cardiac imaging.
2. explain principles of resolution, point-spread function, signal-to-noise ratio, contrast to noise ratio, wave propagation, reflection and refraction, adsorption, scattering, attenuation, ultrasound transducers, Doppler effect, Fourier transform.
3. have insight into radioactive decay, gamma camera, collimators, scintillation crystal, application of nuclear medicine
4. differentiate A-mode, M-mode and B-mode scans, artifacts in ultrasonic imaging.
5. describe nuclear magnetism, spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation, magnetic resonance imaging, phase encoding.
6. enumerate key elements of safety of above methods in clinical setting.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
none
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Lectures, practical laboratory demonstrations and experimentation by students, tutorials. Lectures will include references to recent research developments in the field of bio-imaging, such as 3D tomography, Sodium MRI, increasing echogenicity by gas filled microspheres.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Webb, A., (2003)
Introduction to Biomedical Imaging
, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey
Other Relevant Texts:
Ehsan Samei, Donald J. Peck (2019)
Hendee's Physics of Medical Imaging, 5th edition
, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BEBIENUFA - BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
Nanasaheb.D.Thorat@ul.ie