Outcomes

Now - Week 4

- Understand the fundamental principles of CT imaging.
- Explain the fundamental concepts behind CT image formation and reconstruction.

Now - Week 4

- Describe CT systems and instrumentation

Week 7 - 15

- Identify correct parameters required for CT imaging applications
- Describe the major causes and corrections of image artifacts
- Discuss recent advancement in CT technology - Assess recent advancement in clinical applications of CT
- Understand and describe image quality parameters in CT

Week 7 - 15

- Understand and analyse contributing factors to patient dose from CT scanning
- Describe how and why QA and QC is performed in CT

Objectives

Now - Week 4

You can summarize each process:

data acquisition
image reconstruction
image display

Now - Week 4

You can explain each concept:

sampling, quantization, aliasing
bits, Bytes
resolution spatial, resolution contrast, temporal resolution

Now - Week 4

You can differentiate between using:

an adequate and inadequate bowtie filter
requirements for a detector array
superior temporal resolution and isotropic voxels