Medical Imaging Systems and Applications
 Historical perspective, Generic Principles- modality, contrast, SNR, resolution, toxicity. Review of linear system theory, sampling, Fourier and Hankel transforms, k-space. Xray projecton radiography, Computrized Tomography- acquisition and reconstruction methods, relaxation and constrast mechanisms, applications. Nuclear medicine- radionuclides, PET, SPECT imaging. Ultrasound Imaging- echo equation, transducers, beam forming, pulsed Doppler and phased array systems. Medical Image Processing- physics of Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI reconstruction, funcitonal MRI. Visualization of medical imaging data, segmentation applications.

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References:
Medical Imaging Systems by Albert Macovski, Prantice Hall, 1983.
The Basics of MRI by Joseph Hornak online at http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri
Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, A K Jain, Prentice Hall, 1989.