13. Medical physics.md
2024-4-11|2024-4-12
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Medical Imaging
- Understand: How does a piezo-electric crystal work? Answer:
- Understand: How are ultrasound waves generated and detected by a piezoelectric transducer? Answer:
- Understand: How can the reflection of ultrasound pulses at tissue boundaries be used to obtain diagnostic information about internal structures? Answer:
- Define: What is the specific acoustic impedance of a medium? Answer:
- Use: How is the intensity reflection coefficient of a boundary between two media calculated? Answer:
- 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?
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- Understand: How are X-rays used in imaging internal body structures and what does the term contrast mean in X-ray imaging? Answer:
- Recall and Use: What is the equation for the attenuation of X-rays in matter? Answer:
- 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?
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- Recall: What type of tracer is used in positron emission tomography (PET scanning)? Answer:
- Understand: What occurs during annihilation and what principles are conserved in this process? Answer:
- Explain: How does PET scanning work? Answer:
- Calculate: How can the energy of the gamma-ray photons emitted during the annihilation of an electron-positron pair be calculated? Answer:
- Understand: How are the gamma-ray photons from an annihilation event used to create an image of the tracer concentration in the tissue? Answer:
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