Location and Time
We will meet in McCullough 122 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:15-3:05.
General Course Description
Goals of the course
• to learn the fundamentals of each imaging modality including X-ray, Ultrasound, CT, and MRI.
• to learn normal human anatomy and how it appears on medical images
• to learn the relative strengths of the modalities and
• to answer, “What am I looking at?"
The course is open to Engineering students, Medical students, and H&S students.
Prerequisites are introductory college physics, biology, and calculus.
We typically have six homework sets and two exams. We will pass out many quicktime and avi movies. You can view these with Quicktime Player which is available for the mac and the pc from the Apple website.
The text book we have used is "Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy" by Jamie Weir. Two recommended texts have been "Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy" and "The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging" by J. Bushberg.
2009 Outline
| 1 | 1/4 | M | Intro to Course and Bony Anatomy |
| 2 | 1/6 | W | Muscles and Joints |
| 3 | 1/11 | M | Radiography and CT |
| 4 | 1/13 | W | X-ray Lab |
| 5 | 1/20 | W | MR Imaging I |
| 6 | 1/25 | M | The Chest & Mammo&Abdomen |
| 7 | 1/27 | W | The Abdomen & Pelvis |
| 8 | 2/1 | M | Image Rendering Lab |
| 9 | 2/3 | W | MR Imaging II |
| 10 | 2/8 | M | The Brain |
| 11 | 2/10 | W | Midterm Exam |
| 12 | 2/17 | W | MR Imaging III |
| 13 | 2/22 | M | MRI Lab |
| 14 | 2/24 | W | Head, Neck and Spine |
| 15 | 3/1 | M | Ultrasound Imaging |
| 16 | 3/3 | W | The Cardiovascular System |
| 17 | 3/8 | M | US Lab |
| 18 | 3/10 | W | Modalities Summarized & Compared |
| 3/17 | W | Final Exam 8:30-11:30 |