Lecture: Medical Physics 2: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Nuclear Medicine
Summer semester 2026
Tuesday (16:15–17:45 h) and Thursday (16:15–17:45 h)
Hörsaalgebäude Physik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 308, Hörsaal 2 (kleiner Hörsaal)
Starting date: 14. April 2026
List of Topics (subject to change)
Folder for slides, lecture notes:
https://hub.dkfz.de/s/tptiXBXBcMyfX8N
The required password will be shown during the lecture and be sent via email to all registered students. The lecture will be almost exclusively performed on the blackboard.
We recommend taking your own notes, since copying from the blackboard to paper is known to improve understanding and memory of the topics. The lecture notes will be made available, but not necessarily immediately after each session and they may be incomplete.
Literature
General:
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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.) -
Reiser, Semmler: Magnetic Resonance Tomography (2008) (online)
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R. Buxton: Introduction to functional magnetic resonance imaging (2002)
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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.
