The course will explore the applications of imaging to real life medical challenges and explore in-depth recent advances made in imaging physics.

2 lectures per week

ENG 4096 Medical Imaging and Therapy 5

None

70% Written Examination

30% Report

The aims of this course are to:

■ explore in-depth real life clinical applications of imaging;

■ explain the importance, capabilities and limitations of imaging in diagnostics, treatment planning and monitoring and surgical intervention;

■ describe recent and emerging developments in imaging physics.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ demonstrate knowledge of a range of advanced medical imaging techniques, evaluate when they should be applied, and their relevance in the planning and execution of therapy;

■ explain the physical principles relevant to a range of advanced medical imaging and therapy techniques;

■ evaluate the utility of various advanced imaging techniques for the purposes of diagnosis, treatment planning and monitoring and surgical intervention;

■ describe how the integration of more than one imaging techniques may be accomplished and used in treatment planning;

■ apply the ideas and techniques developed in the lectures to solve problems of imaging co-registration.

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.

Students should attend at least 75% of the timetabled classes of the course.

Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation/submission rates.  Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a MyCampus absence report.