Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie

Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg 56
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Code: MVMP2 Course Title: Medical Physics 2
Programme: Master of Science (Physics)
Type: Lecture with exercises
Credit Points: 6 Workload: 180 h Teaching Hours: 6
Module Parts :
• Lecture on “Medical Physics 2” (4 hours/week)
• Exercise (2 hour/week)
Module Contents:
Mode:
WPM
Term:
WS
• Positron emission tomography (PET), production of β+–emitters, measurement
techniques,
image reconstruction, consideration of applied doses
• Sonography
• Introduction into major biochemical processes
• Modern high–resolution techniques for determination of molecular and physiological
parameters of cells and tissue
• Disposition kinetics, pharmacokinetic modelling
• Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
• High–resolution NMR spectroscopy
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): k–space sampling techniques, fast MRI, functional
MRI, spectroscopic imaging
• Detection of weak signals, hyperpolarisation
• Data analysis in diagnostic imaging, image reconstruction and segmentation
Objective: To provide a comprehensive introduction into morphological and physiological
imaging and spin– and radioactive–tracer techniques.
Necessary/useful Knowledge: detector physics, rf-electronics, image processing, basics
of biochemistry.
Recommended Literature: To be announced by lecturer
Specialties: Exercises with homework
Form of Testing and Examination: To be defined by lecturer before beginning of course
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