Lecture: Medical Physics 2: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Nuclear Medicine

Summer semester 2025

Tuesday (16:15–17:45 h) and Thursday (16:15–17:45 h)

Hörsaalgebäude Physik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 308, Hörsaal 2 (kleiner Hörsaal)

 

List of Topics (subject to changes)

Folder for slides, lecture notes:

https://hub.dkfz.de/s/XwrFAiSfyYJBftP

The required password will be shown during the lecture.

We recommend that you write your own notes during the lecture since copying from the blackboard to paper is known to improve understanding / remembering of the subjects addressed. The lecture notes will be made available at some point, not necessarily immediately after each lecture and may be incomplete.

 

Literature

General:

• Wolfgang Schlegel, Christian P. Karger, Oliver Jäkel (Herausgeber): Medizinische Physik : Grundlagen – Bildgebung – Therapie – Technik (2018);
  online version

NMR / MRI:

• M. T. Vlaardingerbroek: Magnetresonanzbildgebung: Theorie und Praxis. (2003)
  English version: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Theory and Practice."

• D. Weishaupt: Wie funktioniert MRI? (2014) (online)
  english: How does MRI work?
  (Basic introduction, however not sufficient to understand all necessary physical principles.)

• R. A. De Graaf: In vivo NMR spectroscopy (2007)

• M. E. Haacke: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2014)

• M. A. Bernstein: Handbook of MRI pulse sequences (2004)

• M.H. Levitt: Spin Dynamics (2007)

• J. Keeler: Understanding NMR spectroscopy (2010)

• Reiser, Semmler: Magnetic Resonance Tomography (2008) (online)

• C. P. Slichter: Principles of magnetic resonance (1996)

• R. Buxton: Introduction to functional magnetic resonance imaging (2002)

• A. Abragam: The principles of Nuclear Magnetism (1961)

Literature links point to UB Heidelberg items. Some cases, there are different reprints of the same book in the library. Therefore, in case a book should not be available, it may be worth searching for the title in the UB system.