0 or 3 credits
Spring 2026 Lecture Laboratory
This internship course provides the student with hands-on experience with clinical imaging equipment, lectures on the fundamental operation of the equipment, and quality assurance/control methods/assessment of this equipment. Students will learn the safety and imaging performance of flat panel digital x-ray system, fluoroscopy, CT scanner, Ultrasound system, and MRI scanner. Lectures will provide fundamental physics and operation of each system, perform quality assurance methods employed by board certified Medical Physics, and subsequent analysis of these methods. This course is to be delivered as a 50-minute lecture, a 150-minute lab, which includes additional time for image analysis (computational lab). The goal of this course is to provide the necessary information as part of CAMPEP/ABR and ACVR. Prerequisite: HSCI 57000 Introduction to Medical Imaging.
Learning Outcomes1Communicate results to the faculty in charge, both verbally and in writing through their lab report.
2Develop procedures that will provide the required measurement. The protocol they implement will require careful consideration and have a physical understanding of the result.
3Understanding the quality of the measurements and potential procedural errors.
4Synthesize many forms of information to understand image artifacts, characterize the cause of these artifacts, and a means to remediate them.
5Resolve problems, requiring research and ultimately improvements in procedure or protocol.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.