Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

10145 (v.6) Medical Imaging Science 213


Area:

Department of Medical Imaging Science

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

5 x 1 Hours Weekly

Other Requisite(s):

Completion of first year of course
 

Syllabus:

Radiography - applications of tomography, radiographic procedures for theatre and mobile radiography. Contrast media, contrast procedures of the genito-urinary, biliary and alimentary systems. Radiography of the cranium, face, sinuses and mandible. Special radiographic techniques - macroradiography, paediatric, gynaecologic radiography and soft tissue radiography including mammography. Nuclear medicine - principles of nuclear medicine imaging of various systems and organs, skeletal, pulmonary, cardiovascular, endocrine and central nervous systems, renal, GI tract (including blood loss), liver, spleen and infection/inflammatory disease imaging. Performance of bone, lung, cardiac, renal, and thyroid scans. The radio pharmaceutical laboratory - design and regulations, chemistry of technetium and iodine, radiopharmaceuticals -design and reconstitution, radio-labelling of blood components, quality control and radiation safety.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

061501 Radiography

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2006 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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