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

The lecture will be again offered in the summer semester 2025
(Winter term: Medical Physics 1
Medical Physics 3)

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)

 

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.