Medical Imaging I

Introduction to Imaging Physics; Definition of Image; Image as a signal; Psychophysics of vision. Properties of images, Sampling, Digitizing and Displaying images; Geometric and algebraic processing, Spatial filtering; Imaging code and transmission, Binary image analysis, Segmentation, Description of lines and shapes. Representation. Software and Hardware system scene analysis. Application. Types of images; Radiographic and Photographic Images; Scanning of an Image by an Aperture; Image processing, Resolution, modulation, transfer function, Interference and Intensity. Digitization and Reconstruction of Images; Basic theory and physics of medical imaging; Interaction of Radiation with matter; unclear magnetic resonance.