After successful completion of the course, students are able to

• describe basic physics of diagnostic x-ray procedures
• explain x-ray detection and detector technologies
• describe the basics of medical image processing, advantages and disadvantages of common algorithms as well as processing artefacts
• apply and interprete the concept of detective quantum efficiency (DQE) and modulation transfer function (MTF)
• define and use generator ond detector settings of x-ray facilities to the extent of using x-ray equipment for a thesis, e.g.

• Principles of medical imaging physics and instrumentation, x-ray imaging physics
• Production and characteristics of x-ray radiation used in medical diagnostic imaging, x-ray interactions
• Detector technologies and detector physics, mathematical description of detector and resulting image properties
• Principles of diagnostic x-ray dosimetry 

Lecture with interactive elements. Possibility to produce digital x-ray images to verify what you have lerned in the lessons on our Deptartment's x-ray system

Held at Vienna Medical University, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, level 4; lecture room of the Center for Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering. Monday afternoon 14.00-15.30 starting March 2 2020. No lecures on March 16, and May 4

Multiple choice test (TUWEL). 1st possibility to write the exam in last lecure session.

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Books: The essentials of Medical Imaging, J T Bushberg et al., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA 2002 Grundlagen der Strahlenphysik und radiologischen Technik in der Medizin, W Angerstein, H Hoffmann Verlag, Kleinmachnow, Germany, 2005