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Physics Measurements in Imaging

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Contents 1 Course Title: Physics Measurements in Imaging Laboratory 2 Course No.:RADI 5018 3 Instructors:Jonathan Tucker, PhD (Course Director) 4 Text: 5 Credits: 6 Semester Offered: 7 Recommended References: 8 Evaluation Scheme: 9 Course Outline: 10 List of Topics by Week 11 Course Appendix:

[edit] Course Title: Physics Measurements in Imaging Laboratory

[edit] Course No.:RADI 5018

[edit] Instructors:Jonathan Tucker, PhD (Course Director)

• Janet Feng, Ph.D
• Davy Goff, Ph.D.
• Carl Keener, Ph.D.
• Bahadir Ozus, Ph.D.

[edit] Text:

Quality Management in the Imaging Sciences, Jeffrey Papp, Ph.D., Mosby, St. Louis, 2002

[edit] Credits:

2

[edit] Semester Offered:

Spring

[edit] Recommended References:

• AAPM Report #31 Standardized Methods for Measuring Diagnostic X-Ray Exposures (1990)
• AAPM Report #39 Specification and Acceptance Testing of Computed Tomography Scanners (1993)
• AAPM Report #42 The Role of the Clinical Medical Physicist in Diagnostic Radiology (1994)
• AAPM Report #65 Real-Time B-Mode Ultrasound Quality Control Test Procedures (1998)
• AAPM Report #70 Cardiac Catherization Equipment Performance (2001)
• AAPM Report #74 Quality Control in Diagnostic Radiology (2002)
• NCRP Report #99 Quality Assurance for Diagnostic Imaging Equipment (1988)
• ACR Mammography Quality Control Manual (1999)
• Kodak Mammography Optimization Guide (1999)
• Kodak Identifying and Correcting Processing Artifacts (Technical and Scientific Monograph No. 4)
• ACR MRI Quality Control Manual (2001)

[edit] Evaluation Scheme:

[edit] Course Outline:

• Performance of measurements used in quality assurance (QA)
• System characterization
• Acceptance testing of medical imagers

[edit] List of Topics by Week

1. Introduction, Equipment, Tour of Facilities
2. Waveform, Timer, Output, kVp, HVL
3. Scatter Measurements & Radiation Safety
4. Focal Spot Size and Resolution Testing
5. Fluoroscopy
6. Electronic Imaging I
7. Electronic Imaging II
8. Computed Tomography I
9. Computed Tomography II
10. Ultrasound
11. MR Imaging I
12. MR Imaging II
13. Processor & Screens
14. Mammography I
15. Mammography II
16. Examination II - Final Exam

[edit] Course Appendix:

1 set of exams, 1 student evaluation (1 set of experiment descriptions, etc.).

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