RAD387 The Physics in Medical Imaging II (2002 Summer)

The course covers the fundamentals of nuclear medicine, ultrasonic, and x-ray computed tomographic imaging. Topics include: physics, mathematics, and statistics of image formation in SPECT, PET, conventional ultrasound, ultrasonic diffraction tomography, conventional and helical computed tomography. Functional imaging and compartmental analysis are also covered.

Course Lecturers:

Chin-Tu Chen,	2-6269,	c-chen@uchicago
Chien-Min Kao,	2-6273,	c-kao@uchicago
Patrick La Riviere,	2-6975,	pjlarivi@midway.uchicago
Bill O'Brien-Penney,	2-0910,	bobrienp@uchicago
Xiaochuan Pan,	2-1293,	xpan@uchicago
Nicholas Yasillao,	2-0043,	n-yasillo@uchicago

Lecture Schedule (pdf)

• Lectures will be given 3:00 - 4:30pm every Tuesday and Thursday starting June 25, 2002.
• The lectures will be held in Biological Science Learning Center(BSLC) Room 313.
• Make-up class for Biokinetics and Compartment Analysis will be given at I-SB-23, 1:30pm Aug. 14 (Wed.)
• Download Homework for Lecture #10.
• Last lecture(Ultrasound Signal Processing) is on Monday (Aug. 26).
• Final exam is on 3:00pm Aug. 29 (Thu.)
• Scores of homeworks, midterm and final.

Review Sessions by TA

• Jul. 18 (BSLC 313, after class)
  - Concept of Uncorrelatedness, Algebraic Reconstruction Algorithm
• Jul. 25 (I-SB-23, 2:30pm)
  - Last midterm problem set
• Aug. 8 (BSLC 313, after class)
  - Autocovariance and Noise Power Spectrum
• Aug. 14 (I-SB-23, 3:00pm)
  - Nonlinear Partial Volume Artifacts in CT
• Aug. 27 (I-B-007, after practicum presentation)
  - Noise properties of CT and ultrasound
• Sep. 5 "Special" Review for the Quali. (I-SB-23, 3:00pm)
  - Linear Shift Invariance, Green's Function, Ergodicity...

Recommended Textbook:

Sorenson, J. A. and Phelps, M. E.,
Physics in Nuclear Medicine, 2nd Edition

Useful References:

• Bushberg, J. T., Seibert, J. A., Leidholdt, E. M., Jr., Boone, J. M., The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, 2nd Edition

• Barrett, H. H., Swindell, W., Radiological Imaging

• Papoulis, A., Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes, 3rd Edition

• Websites of PET
  
  • CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc.
  • UCLA Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
  • Let's Play PET!

• Commercial Position Sensitive PMT
  University of Chicago team led by N. Yasillo had developed the prototype (1992).

• Articles on CT
  
  • Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging
  • Notes on Computerized Tomography

• for Radon transform Homework:
  • Wolfram Integrator
  • TILU - Table of Integrals Look Up
  • Fresnel Integral Functions (HPCSoft)

• Radiation Safety
  • FDA Institutional Review Board Information Sheets
  • Radioactive drugs for certain research uses (Code of Federal Regulations)

• A seminar on k-space applied to medical ultrasound

TA: Kang-Hyun Ahn, 4-2131(E-SB-05), khahn@uchicago