Study Programmes 2015-2016
| PHYS0942-3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ionising radiations and imaging | |||||||||||||||||
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Duration :
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| 20h Th, 5h Pr | |||||||||||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Alain Seret | |||||||||||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | |||||||||||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | |||||||||||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | |||||||||||||||||
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Course contents :
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| Introduction to radiology, nuclear medicine and tomography reconstruction techniques used by these medical imaging modalities and a practical teaching on digital images. | |||||||||||||||||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the course the student will be able
to describe and explain the physics of conventionnal radiology (analogic or digital images), to describe and explain the physics of CT-scan, to describe and explain the physics of in-vivo diagnostic nuclear medicine (scintigraphy and positron emission tomography), to describe and explain the mathematics of the problem of tomography reconstruction and some of the methods to solve this problem, to use a software of medical image processing. |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Courses PHYS0093 & PHYS2009 of Bachelor in physical sciences or equivalent courses. | |||||||||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Mainly theoretical course. Practice with digital images is self-learning. | |||||||||||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face. Practice with digital images is self-learning. | |||||||||||||||||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Text documents and slides are downloadable (eCampus).
The section devoted to tomography reconstruction is based on the book (in french) "Reconstruction tomographique: première approche" by A. Seret et M. Defrise (2104) published at the Presses Universitaires de Liège. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| In french, see the french version. | |||||||||||||||||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course makes use of eCampus. The access to a computer (PC or Mac) is mandatory for the practice with digital images. | |||||||||||||||||
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Contacts :
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| Alain SERET - Phone: +32-4-3663705 - E-mail: aseret@ulg.ac.be Institute of Physics, B5 - Quartier Agora - Allée du six Aout 19 - Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège - BELGIUM. | |||||||||||||||||
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Items online :
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 | Notes de cours ou diapositives Les textes de référence et diapositives sont téléchargeables via eCampus. |
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