90993 - Physics CT -

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Paola Berardi
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: FIS/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 9079)

Learning outcomes

Students learn about CT equipment and imaging physical principles with regard on clinical applications, fundamentals on optimization of CT procedures, parameters, quality controls and dosimetry.

Course contents

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATION OF THE MAIN COMPONENTS OF CT SYSTEMS

EVOLUTION OF CT SYSTEMS UP TO THE STATE OF THE ART - SPIRAL CT - MULTILAYER CT

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO ALL ACQUISITION TECHNIQUES - FILTERED BACK PROJECTION AND ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS

ARTIFACTS

ADVANCED CLINICAL APPLICATIONS - CARDIO CT - DUAL ENERGY

MAIN RECONSTRUCTION OF CT IMAGES

Readings/Bibliography

Elementi di Tomografia Computerizzata https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-88-470-1697-2

Guida alla diagnostica per immagini con le tecniche computerizzate - Tomografia computerizzata ( TC ) - Risonanza magnetica ( RM ) Gavelli - Lentini (1999)

TOMOGRAFIA COMPUTERIZZATA: DESCRIZIONE E MISURA DEI PARAMETRI CARATTERISTICI Traduzione, revisione e integrazione del documento: “Measurement of the Performance Characteristics of Diagnostic X-ray Systems used in Medicine” Report N.32 IPEM - Part III: Computed Tomography X-ray Scanners - (II edition - 2003) - AIFM 2007 

NORME CEI EN 61223-2-6 (1995)
NCRP REPORT N. 99 (1988)
DROEGE ET AL, MED. PHYS. 10, 337-343 (1983)
KALENDER ET AL, MED.PHYS. 18, 910-915 (1991)
POLACIN ET AL, RADIOLOGY 185, 29-35 (1992)
POLACIN ET AL, MED.PHYS. 21, 133-140 (1994)

Teaching methods

Oral presentation

Assessment methods

Three questions about CT physics

Office hours

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