Høst 2024

FYS-3024 Biomedical Instrumentation and Imaging - 10 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for fysikk og teknologi

Type of course

The course is available as a singular course. The course is also available to exchange students and free-movers.

The course will only be taught if there is a sufficient number of students. Are you interested in following the course, please contact the student advisor as soon as possible.

Course overlap

FYS-8024 Biomedical Instrumentation and Imaging 8 ects

Course contents

The main purpose of this course is to present an overview of well-established biomedical imaging systems and their image interpretation. The course will examine various imaging modalities including X-Ray, ultrasound, nuclear, MRI, microwave, and optical techniques. Emphasis will be put on how these images are formed and various types of information that can be extracted, together with underlying physical and technical mechanisms for image generation. Specific imaging techniques presented in the course include medical ultrasound (ultrasonography), mammography, MRI functional imaging, IR thermography, CT, UWB EM radar, and passive microwave radiometry.

Admission requirements

Admission requirements are a Bachelor's degree in physics or similar education, including specialization in physics worth the equivalent of not less than 80 ECTS credits. Local admission, application code 9371 - singular courses at Master's level.

Objective of the course

Knowledge - The student will be able to:

understand various principles for medical imaging and potential patient side effects of each modality
get an overview of the design and implementation stages of medical measurement systems
understand explicitly how images are formed through excitation and signal processing of the received waveforms

Skills - The student will be able to:

analyze and quantify the performance of medical measurement systems based on performance parameters
identify medical modalities and know which diagnostic cases they are typically used

General competence - The student will be able to:

understand the physical principles used in modern medicine
understand technological applications based on different physical measurement principles

Language of instruction

The language of instruction is English and all of the syllabus material is in English. Examination questions will be given in English, but may be answered either in English or a Scandinavian language.

Teaching methods

Lectures: 45 hours Project work and supervision: 30 hours