Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

RAD 302 — Physics of Cross-sectional Imaging

RAD department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• identify the similarities and differences between CT, MRI, U/S, and the underlying physical processes that achieve sectional imaging; and
• describe the instrumentation and operation of equipment used for sectional imaging

Course contents

Principles of CT : X ray projection, attenuation and acquisition of transmission profiles. The linear attenuation coefficient , the density of the material and the photon energy, beer’s law, Hounsfield units, Gantry and table , X-ray tube and generator, collimation and filtration, detectors, image reconstruction and processing.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study RAD 302.

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