Ionising radiations and imaging

Duration

20h Th, 5h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Alain Seret

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Introduction to radiology, nuclear medicine and tomography reconstruction techniques used by these medical imaging modalities and a practical teaching on digital images.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Courses PHYS0093 & PHYS2009 of Bachelor in physical sciences or equivalent courses.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mainly theoretical course. Practice with digital images is self-learning.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face-to-face. Practice with digital images is self-learning.

Recommended or required readings

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 (2014) published at the Presses Universitaires de Liège.

Assessment methods and criteria

In french, see the french version.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The course makes use of eCampus. The access to a computer (PC or Mac) is mandatory for the practice with digital images.

Contacts

Alain SERET - Phone: +32-4-3663705 - E-mail: aseret@uliege.be
Université de Liège - Institute of Physics B5a Quartier Agora - Allée du Six Aout 19 - Sart Tilman - 4000 Liège - BELGIUM.

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