060713110 COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ( 3 Crd.Hrs )

This course aims to provide the basic principle of the computed tomography (CT), including the CT imaging physics and instrumentation, data acquisition, image reconstruction and display, and the image quality. In addition, this course discusses the main topics that related to the patient care, such as patient preparation, contrast agents and different techniques of injecting this contrast medium to the patient. The radiation dosimetry in Computed Tomography. The last part, which is important to the medical imaging technologist, is the imaging procedures and protocols for different body parts, like neurologic, thoracic, abdominal, musculoskeletal, and interventional procedures. The factors the affect on this procedures such as patient condition, type of disease, involuntary motion will be discuss also.