1 Semester/Teaching Period

58 hours

Hawthorn

Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

Aims & Objectives:

To gain a solid theoretical understanding of major imaging modalities currently used in clinical and biomedical research settings, together with a review of new technology and its possible applications to medicine.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures, tutorials and laboratory work.

Assessment:

Assignments, examinations, pracs.

Content:

• Biomedical imaging: image reconstructions from projections, diagnostic ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound, projection radiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), spatially localised spectroscopy, radioisotope imaging, gamma scintigraphy, emission computed tomography, miscellaneous imaging modalities.
• General aspects of image display.
• Laser scanning confocal microscopy: multiphoton imaging nanotechnology.
• Fabrication methods including excimer laser.
• Physical properties of biological materials: visco-elastic properties.
• Methods of static and dynamic testing of bone, skin, muscle, arteries etc.
• Cell-cell adhesion, CAMs, adhesion to non living materials.
• Power sources for implantable medical devices: packaging, battery life and power density.
• Examples of biocompatible materials: woven fabrics, PMMA, ceramics, fibres, metals. Electrode materials.
• Examples of devices: cochlear implant, glucose sensors, optical and membrane-based biosensors, implantable pumps operated by feedback.
• Rehabilitation technology: gait analysis.

Reading Materials:

Webb, S, The Physics of Medical Imaging, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 1992.