Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Technologies

Não se aplica.

Through the content expressed, the student will gain knowledge about information systems, networks, security and telemedicine that will allow them to obtain skills and competencies in interacting with the various information systems that surround this professional in an autonomous and safe way, safeguarding the patient.

Theoretical-practical classes will be expository with student interaction and will allow you to consolidate the knowledge to be applied in practice. In practical classes, image manipulation and visualization workstations, DICOM viewers and image processing applications will be used.

Theoretical-practical and practical classes will cover components of radiology, radiotherapy and nuclear medicine according to the distribution of hours allocated to each modality.

The student must acquire knowledge about:

• Patient flow and data in a healthcare facility

• Technologies and existing clinical information systems

• Define digital Image the fundamental aspects and representation.

• Digital image definition, its representation and manipulation

New technologies for medical image processing (pre and post acquisition) and Multimodal image

The student must acquire skills for:

• Recognize data and interfaces and interactions in health information systems

• Manipulate the image comprising the functions available on work consoles efficiently.

• To understand the image processing techniques applied.

The student must acquire competences of:

• Analyse and evaluate information systems and the associated technologies according to the standards and safety

• Perform image processing operations with the increase of information, with application in clinical practice or in research.

• Perform and understand the process of fusion of images from multiple modalities.

Hospital technology associated to information systems.

Information systems and technologies, concept of information and Medical Imaging information systems.

Standard DICOM and HL7 language.

E-health concepts. Telemedicine and its computer applications in health.

Digital image definition: acquisition, quantification, spatial resolution, contrast and mathematical representation

Basic operations in the spatial domain and frequency domain

Image formats and types of compression and their implications

Image processing tools: edge detection, segmentation, interpolation and pattern detection.

Image processing in ultrasound, angiography, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy exams. Multimodal image applications and manipulations.

FDA-approved standards and recommendations.

Concepts and assumptions associated with multimodal image fusion and tools for image fusion with clinical application.

NAO

Primary:

Pressman, R. S. (2010). Software engineering: a practitioner’s approach (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Pereira, A., Giest, S., Dumortier, J., & Artmann, J. (2010). eHealth strategies, country brief: Portugal. DICOM. (2012). DICOM Strategic Document.

ACSS. (2011). Classificação internacional de cuidados de saúde primários: Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde.

GONZALEZ, Rafael C.; WOODS, Richard E. – Digital Imaging and Processing, 3ª Edição, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2008 ISBN 0-201-18075-8

Secondary:

LIMA, João José Pedroso – Técnicas de diagnóstico com raios X, Aspectos Físicos e Biofísicos. Coimbra: Imprensa
da Universidade, 2005 ISBN 972.8704-58-5

Gee, J.C., Joshi, S., Pohl, K.M., Wells, W.M., Zöllei, L. (Eds.) Information Processing in Medical Imaging 23rd
International Conference, IPMI 2013, Asilomar, CA, USA, June – ISBN 978-3-642-38867-5