FYS4762 – Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation

After completing the course, you should:

• understand basic principles for image formation and image reconstruction for imaging modalities using ionizing radiation.
• have knowledge of the technological fundamentals for the equipment.
• have knowledge of different applications.
• be able to calculate absorbed doses.
• have knowledge of different methods for measurements of doses and image quality.
• understand the basic principles for optimization with respect to radiation doses and image quality.

Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

• FYS4711 – Radiation and Dosimetry

The teaching is given over a period of five to six weeks.

• 20 lectures
• 6 hours of group work

Mandatory assignments that must be approved before you can take the final exam:

• Submission of three mandatory reports (valid for three years after approval).
• Oral presentation of one of the mandatory reports.

Peer review of the report of another fellow student on the course, which must be submitted.

Regulations for mandatory activities can be found here.

Digital participation in the course will be made possible.

• ​Final oral examination which counts 100 % towards the final grade. The final exam is arranged immediately after the period of intensive teaching is finished.

This course has mandatory exercises that must be approved before you can sit the final exam

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: FYS4761 – CT- and X-ray Diagnostic Techniques (discontinued), FYS4762 – Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation, FYS9761 – CT- and X-ray Diagnostic Techniques (discontinued).

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed exam at the beginning of the next semester.

New examinations are offered at the beginning of the next semester for students who do not successfully complete the exam during the previous semester.

We do not offer a re-scheduled exam for students who withdraw during the exam.