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Telephone: (212) 305-5005

Fax: (212) 342-0927

Postal address:

Milstein 3-265B

177 Fort Washington Avenue

New York, NY 10032

Electronic mail 

zfl1@columbia.edu

 

• Edward L. Nickoloff, D.Sc. | 212-305-5005 | Chief Hospital Physicist and Professor
  
• Ajoy Dutta, M.S. | 212-305-6493 | Associate Clinical Physicist
  
• Zhengfeng Lu, Ph.D. | 212-305-9020| Associate Professor
  
• James So, M.S. | 212-305-6516 | Associate Clinical Physicist
  

	Lectures in the Physics of Diagnostic Radiology for Radiology
Residents will be given each week on Thursdays or Fridays from 1:30pm -
2:30pm, commencing, August 9, 2007. The lectures will be held in the Radiology 
Library Room #3-305 (on Harkness 3). If the library is occasionally 
not available, other arrangements will be made for these dates. The lecture 
series will continue to June 12, 2008. The tentative lecture schedule 
is listed below along with the presenter and topic (UNLESS NOTICES ARE 
POSTED CHANGING THE TIME, DATE OR LOCATION OF THE LECTURES).

The principle textbook for the lecture series will be: 

1. Nickoloff EL, Diagnostic Radiology Physics Review, Elsevier/Saunders, 
Publishers ISBN 1-4160-2260-0, 2005.
2. JT. Bushberg, JA Seibert, EM Leidholdt, Jr. and JM Boone, The
Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, Williams & Wilkins, 2001.
3. Wolbarst AB, Physics of Radiology, Appleton & Lange, 2005.
4. Huda W, Stone RM, Review of Radiologic Physics, Williams & Wilkins,
2002.
5. Hendee W, Ritenour R., Medical Imaging Physics, 4th Ed., Wiley-Liss, 
2002.

For the Nuclear Medicine portion of the course, following books are 
recommended:

1. SR Cherry, JA Sorenson and ME Phelps, "Physics in Nuclear Medicine", 
Grune & Stratton, 2003.
2. Henkin R et al."Nuclear Medicine", Mosby, 2006.
3. Mettler FA and Guiberteau MJ, "Essential of Nuclear Medicine Imaging", 
2006.
4. Chandra R, "Introduction Physics of Nuclear Medicine", Lea & Febiger, 
2004.

Additional suggested readings and notes will be provided during the
course.

1. 08-09-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Review of Basic Physics Principles: Atomic Structure, Electricity & Magnetism, Momentum & Energy.
2. 08-16-07 / Dr. Z. Lu/Mr. J. So / Introduction to Electronics & Quantum Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation.
3. 08-23-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Production of X-rays: Bremsstrahlung and Characteristic X-rays.
4. 08-30-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / X-ray Equipment I: X-ray Tube Design.
5. 09-06-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / X-ray Equipment II: Heat Loading Characteristics.
6. 09-20-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / X-ray Equipment III: Generators, Electronics and Control Circuits.
7. 09-27-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Interactions of X-rays with Matter.
8. 10-04-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / Attenuation Coefficients & Radiation Penetration.
9. 10-11-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Factors Influencing the Differential Attenuation and Scatter/kVp Effects Upon Image Quality.
10. 10-18-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / Filters, Radiation Quality, HVL and X-ray Beam Restrictors.
11. 10-25-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / Grids and Collimators
12. 11-01-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / Intensifying screens & Physical and Photographic Properties of X-ray Film.
13. 11-08-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff /Processing & Radiographic Film & Sensitometry Assessment.
14. 11-16-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Computed Radiology/Digital Radiology & PACS
15. 11-30-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Radiographic Image Quality I: Focal Spot, Distance, Distortion, Geometry and Magnification Effects.
16. 12-07-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / Radiographic Image Quality II: Various Forms of Unsharpness.
17. 12-14-07 / Dr. Z. Lu / Radiographic Image Quality III: Contrast, Latitude, Density and Mottle.
18. 12-21-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Radiographic Image Quality IV: Spatial Resolution & MTF.
19. 12-28-07 / TBA / Introduction to Fluoroscopy.
20. 01-04-08 / TBA / X-ray Image Intensifier/Flat Panel Detectors.
21. 01-11-08 / TBA / Television Systems.
22. 01-18-07 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Mammography: Part I: Film/Screen.
23. 01-25-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Mammography: Part II: Digital.
24. 02-01-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Computed Tomography I: review of instrumentation: past and present (axial, spiral, multi-slice).
25. 02-08-08 / Dr. Z. Lu / Computed Tomography II: Physical Principles, Reconstruction Algorithms and new imaging technique.
26. 02-14-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Computed Tomography III: Spatial Resolution, Noise and Artifacts.
27. 02-21-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Computed Tomography IV: Radiation Doses and Risks.
28. 02-28-08 / Dr. Z. Lu / Patient Exposures and Dosimetry for X-ray procedures; Radiation Protection Criteria and Radiation Shielding.
29. 03-06-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Radiation Biology Review I: Micro-scale - Survival Curves, Cell Sensitivity, LET, RBE.
30. 03-13-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Radiation Biology Review II: Micro-scale - Radiation Effects in Humans, Acute and Latent.
31. 03-20-08 / Dr. Z. Lu / Ultrasound I: Basic Principles.
32. 03-27-08 / Dr. Z. Lu / Ultrasound II: Transducers; Instrumentation; Doppler Ultrasound; Image Artifact.
33. 04-03-08 / TBA / MRI I: Basic Principles & Instrumentation
34. 04-10-08 / TBA / MRI II: MRI Equipment & MRI Safety
35. 04-17-08 / TBA / MRI III: Introduction to MRI Pulse Sequences
36. 04-24-08 / TBA / MRI IV: MRI Image Quality & Artifacts
37. 05-01-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Nuclear Medicine I: Natural and Artificial Sources of Radioactivity; Modes of Decay; Balancing Nuclear Equations; Energy Diagrams.
38. 05-08-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Nuclear Medicine II: Transient and Secular Equilibrium and Radionuclide Generators.
39. 05-15-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Nuclear Medicine III: Radiation Dosimetry.
40. 05-22-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Nuclear Medicine IV: Devices for Detection of Low Activity Sources; Gamma Ray Spectroscopy.
41. 05-29-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Nuclear Medicine V: Clinical Uses of Radionuclides and the Scintillation Camera; SPECT and PET.
42. 06-05-08 / Dr. E. Nickoloff / Nuclear Medicine VI: Statistics.
43. 06-12-08 / Dr. Z. Lu / Computers, PACS and Informatics.