Course detail

Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

FEKT-ARADAcad. year: 2010/2011

The subject offers a theoretical and practical outline of imaging methods i.e. radiology and nuclear medicine. Besides the methods using x-ray radiation (emission and transmission methods) for imaging the subject the subject covers magnetic resonance and sonography. Comparison of the technical parameters of methods, both hardware and software. Data transfer and storage with focus on DICOM PACS, RIS a NIS formats.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Prof. MUDr. Vlastimil Válek, CSc.

Department

Department of Biomedical Engineering (UBMI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The knowledge of the technical principles of methods applied in radiology and nuclear medicine, practical applications, use in practice and interdisciplinary approach to the study area, protection of the patient.

Prerequisites

Knowledge at secondary school level and of completed subjects in the study area

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

- theoretical principles of individual methods of radiology and nuclear medicine
- practical exercises, demonstration of devices and their use, restrictions and hazards of these methods

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To develop a theoretical and practical knowledge of the methods applied in radiology and nuclear medicine, their restrictions and possibilities with focus on the technical aspects of individual methods and practical training.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BLAŽEK, Oskar et al. Radiologie a nukleární medicína. Praha: Avicenum, 1989. (CS)
CHUDÁČEK, Zdeněk. Radiodiagnostika I. část. Brno: IPVZ, 1995. ISBN 80-7013-114-4. (CS)
NEKULA, Josef et al. Radiologie. Olomouc: UP Olomouc, 2001. ISBN 80-244-0259-9. (CS)
VÁLEK, Vlastimil et al. Moderní diagnostické metody. Brno: IDV, 2000. (díl I – VI) (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BTBIO-A Bachelor's

    branch A-BTB , 2. year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Prof. MUDr. Vlastimil Válek, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Origin of x-ray radiation, sciagraphy and sciascopy
2. X-ray apparatus, tools, accessories and protective aids
3. Film material, processing, digitization, storage
4. Radiation protection of the patient and staff
5. Theoretical principles of Ultrasound
6. Theoretical principles of CT
7. Theoretical principles of MR 1
8. Theoretical principles of MR 2
9. Theoretical principles of DSA
10. Theoretical principles and application of nuclear medicine methods
11. Theoretical principles and use of Spect
12. Theoretical principles and use of PET
13. Digital archives, PACS, teleradiology, telemedicine

Laboratory exercise

72 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Prof. MUDr. Vlastimil Válek, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Apparatus x-ray apparatus, tools, accessories and protective aids, origin, creation and quality of X-ray image, factors affecting its quality
2. Film material, film programs, procesing of film material and technical defects of rentgenograms, storage and communication systems, direct digitization, indirect digitization
3. Sciascopy, tomography, kinematography, videorecording, digital recording, memory luminescence foils, direct digital radiography
4. Ultrasound – setting the apparatus, modifications of images – practical applications of theoretical principles - demonstration
5. Ultrasound – physical principles, hazards, software + demonstration on ultrasound apparatus
6. CT – physical principles, hazards, software + demonstration
7. CT – modern trends in image processing + demonstration
8. Conventional angiography, DSA, angiography direct, synoptic, selective, superselective, angiographic laboratory - practical exercises
9. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): image localization and reconstruction, pulse sequence, spin echo, gradients, Fourier transform, T1, T2, proton density
10. Basics of the MR technique – apparatus, parts of MR
11. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): MR spectroscopy, technical design-structure of the MR scanner, demonstration – clinical examples, comparison with other imaging methods, health hazards
12. Nuclear medicine – demonstration of individual methods, collimating lenses, function and categories, movement scintigraph, scintillation camera - componets, specifications, data processing in nuclear medicine, digitization in NM, portable scintillation gamma probe
13. Specificities of imaging by the mobile x-ray apparatus, in the operating theatre, traumatology, specificities of pediatric radiodiagnostics.