In this course students will cover in depth the concepts of physics and components of CT scanners. It briefly reviews the basic physics principles of CT and extensively considers the physics of advanced principles and techniques, and modern CT scanners.
The course will review how CT images are created and will extensively cover on how to manipulate different factors to produce images with high quality at the least possible radiation dose to the patients.
Different artifiacts that may occur will be covered, and how to overcome each one, with softwares, reconstruction algorithms, etc.
CT imaging protocols will be presented covering study indications, contraindications, scanning technique, imaging protocol, the appearance of normal CT scans and the appearance of the most common pathologies, and patient management, with real cases, which will be followed by group discussion.