Medical Imaging Systems detailed syllabus for Instrumentation & Control Engineering (ICE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ICE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Instrumentation & Control Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ICE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to ICE Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of medical imaging systems is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
X RAYS
Nature of X-rays- X-Ray absorption – Tissue contrast. X- Ray Equipment (Block Diagram) – X-Ray Tube, the collimator, Bucky Grid, power supply, Digital Radiography – discrete digital detectors, storage phosphor and film scanning, X-ray Image Intensifier tubes – Fluoroscopy -Digital Fluoroscopy. Angiography, cine Angiography. Digital subtraction Angiography. Mammography.
Unit II
COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Principles of tomography, CT Generations, X- Ray sources- collimation- X- Ray detectors -Viewing systems – spiral CT scanning – Ultra fast CT scanners. Image reconstruction techniques – back projection and iterative method.
Unit III
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Unit IV
NUCLEAR IMAGING
Radioisotopes- alpha, beta, and gamma radiations. Radio Pharmaceuticals. Radiation detectors -gas filled, ionization chambers, proportional counter, GM counter and scintillation Detectors, Gamma camera – Principle of operation, collimator, photomultiplier tube, X-Y positioning circuit, pulse height analyzer. Principles of SPECT and PET.
Unit V
RADIATION THERAPY AND RADIATION SAFETY
Radiation therapy – linear accelerator, Telegamma Machine. SRS – SRT – Recent Techniques in radiation therapy – 3D CRT – IMRT – IGRT and Cyber knife – radiation measuring instruments Dosimeter, film badges, Thermo Luminescent dosimeters – electronic dosimeter – Radiation protection in medicine – radiation protection principles
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Describe the working principle of the X-ray machine and its application.
- Illustrate the principle computed tomography
- Interpret the technique used for visualizing various sections of the body using Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Demonstrate the applications of radionuclide imaging.
- Analyze different imaging techniques and choose appropriate imaging equipment for better diagnosis and outline the methods of radiation safety.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Khandpur R.S, “Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation”, Tata McGraw – Hill, New Delhi, 2003.
- Dougherty, Geoff (Ed.), “Medical Image Processing – Techniques and Applications “,Springer-Verlag New York, 2011
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