13. Medical physics.md

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Medical Imaging
  1. Understand: How does a piezo-electric crystal work?  Answer:
  1. Understand: How are ultrasound waves generated and detected by a piezoelectric transducer?  Answer:
  1. Understand: How can the reflection of ultrasound pulses at tissue boundaries be used to obtain diagnostic information about internal structures?  Answer:
  1. Define: What is the specific acoustic impedance of a medium?  Answer:
  1. Use: How is the intensity reflection coefficient of a boundary between two media calculated?  Answer:
  1. Recall and Use: What is the equation for the attenuation of ultrasound in matter?  Answer:
Production and use of X-rays 7. Explain: How are X-rays produced and how can the minimum wavelength of X-rays be calculated from the accelerating potential difference?  Answer:
  1. Understand: How are X-rays used in imaging internal body structures and what does the term contrast mean in X-ray imaging?  Answer:
  1. Recall and Use: What is the equation for the attenuation of X-rays in matter?  Answer:
  1. Understand: How does computed tomography (CT) scanning produce a 3D image of an internal structure?  Answer:
PET scanning 11. Understand: What is a tracer and how is it used in medical imaging?  Answer:
  1. Recall: What type of tracer is used in positron emission tomography (PET scanning)?  Answer:
  1. Understand: What occurs during annihilation and what principles are conserved in this process?  Answer:
  1. Explain: How does PET scanning work?  Answer:
  1. Calculate: How can the energy of the gamma-ray photons emitted during the annihilation of an electron-positron pair be calculated?  Answer:
  1. Understand: How are the gamma-ray photons from an annihilation event used to create an image of the tracer concentration in the tissue?  Answer:
Physics
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