42916 - Application of Mathematics to Medicine (2018/2019)

General information

42916 - Application of Mathematics to Medicine (AMM, 7 CFU), second semester, years: 1°, 2° LM.

Course content

Part I: X-ray tomography (overview); Radon transform,formulas for the inversion of the Radontransform (as back projection and filtered back projection), issues of uniqueness.

Part II: positron emission tomography (overview); on the two inverse problems related to positronemission tomography: an imaging problem (inversion of the Radon transform) and a compartmentalone (Gauss-Newton optimization scheme)

Part III: magnetic resonance imaging (overview); models for data acquisition and magnetic fielddistortion, Fourier transform, inversion of the Fourier transform from undersampled data.

Language

English

Teacher

Michele Piana

Other teachers

Federico Benvenuto

Teaching style

In presence

Attendance

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