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=Lecture on 10-01-2009=

See [http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa08/6.872J/ here] for a schedule of the entire 6.872J/HST950  Biomedical Computing class.

=Image acquisition=

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|align="left"|This is a listing of some of the medical imaging modalities which are used routinely in clinical practice in the the US.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray X-rays]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound Ultrasound]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computed_tomography Computed tomography]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_medicine Nuclear Medicine: Spect, Pet]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRI MRI: Structural, functional, DTI]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_imaging#Creation_of_three-dimensional_images Postprocessing]
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|+ '''Example of MR tractography analysis'''
|valign="top"|[[Image:Tracts2.png|thumb|350px|See [[Algorithm:GATech:Finsler_Active_Contour_DWI|here]] for more information]]
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=Image Informatics=
PACS systems: [http://www.xnat.org XNAT]

=Medical Image Computing=
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|align="left"| The following two powerpoint presentations provide an introduction to medical image computing, as practiced at the SPL, and to some basic concepts used for image guided therapy (IGT).
*[[media:Kikinis-IIC-10-03-2007.ppt|IIC 2007 presentation]]: MIC
*[[media:2009-06-18-Kikinis-CAOS.ppt|CAOS 2009 presentation]]: IGT
*[http://www.slicer.org Slicer website]
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[[Image:US_Photoseries_4.png|300px|thumb|4D ultrasound imaging within Slicer3. Paul Novotny, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston and Ben Grauer, Swiss Federal Inst of Tech.]]
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