FYS4761 – CT- and X-ray Diagnostic Techniques
Course description
Course content
The course gives an introduction to imaging modalities based on ionizing radiation, with a focus on medical diagnostics. This includes different forms of x-ray equipment, CT, gamma cameras/SPECT, and PET. An overview of the technological basis?for the scanners and the fundamentals of image formation will be given. Selected examples of applications will also be presented. Methods for measurements and calculations of absorbed doses and image quality are included in the course.
Learning outcome
After completing the course, you should:
- understand basic principles for image formation and image reconstruction for imaging modalities using ionizing radiation.
- have knowledge of the technological fundamentals for the equipment.
- have knowledge of different applications.
- be able to calculate absorbed doses.
- have knowledge of different methods for measurements of doses and image quality.
- understand the basic principles for optimization with respect to radiation doses and image quality.
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Recommended previous knowledge
Overlapping courses
- 5 credits overlap with FYS9761 – CT- and X-ray Diagnostic Techniques.
- 5 credits overlap with FYS4760 – Fysikk i medisinsk r?ntgendiagnostikk (discontinued).
- 5 credits overlap with FYS9760 – Physics in medical x-ray diagnostics (discontinued).
- 5 credits overlap with FYS4762 – Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation.
- 5 credits overlap with FYS9762 – Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation.
Teaching
The teaching is given intensively over five weeks.?
- 10 lectures
- Two mandatory reports has to be handed in. The reports will be assessed as approved/ not approved and are valid three years after approval.
Examination
- ?Final oral examination (counting 100%). The final exam will be held right after the teaching is finished.
The two mandatory exercises must be approved before the final exam.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: FYS9761 – CT- and X-ray Diagnostic Techniques
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.