Courses Handbook 2008

310289 (v.1) Medical Imaging Science 614


Area: Department of Medical Imaging Science
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** 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: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 307716 (v.2) Medical Imaging Science 612 or any previous version
Syllabus: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The physics of magnetic resonance; motion within atoms, hydrogen nucleus, alignment, precession, Larmour equation, resonance, MR signal, FID, relaxation, longitudinal relaxation time (T1) recovery, transverse relaxation time (T2) decay, T2*, pulse-timing parameters K-space. Magnets, gradient magnets and radiofrequency systems. MR contrast in Spin Echo Imaging. Spatial encoding, data collection and image formation, parameters and trade-offs. Image artefacts. Quality assurance. Introduction to fast/turbo spin echo, gradient echo, three-dimensional MR and MR angiography. MRI safety. Introduces MRI techniques and protocols utilised in clinical practice. Integrates professional and ethical standards and concepts essential to the clinical environment.
** 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
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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 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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