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RAD 453 Computerised Tomography (CT)

400 levelMedical & Health Sciences11 topics

RAD 453 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Historical development and principles of CT
  2. CT generations and gantry design
  3. Data acquisition and image reconstruction
  4. Hounsfield units and windowing
  5. Spiral/helical and multi-slice CT
  6. CT of the head and brain
  7. CT of the thorax, abdomen and pelvis
  8. Contrast media in CT
  9. CT artefacts and their reduction
  10. Radiation dose in CT and dose optimisation
  11. CT image post-processing

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Historical development and principles of CT

This topic covers how computed tomography (CT) developed from conventional X-ray imaging into a cross-sectional imaging technique, and the core physical principles that make image reconstruction possible. For exams, you must know the historical milestones, the meaning of attenuation and reconstruction, and why CT became a major advance in medical diagnosis.

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