Postgraduate Course: Imaging (BIME11110)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Biomedical Sciences | 
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
 
| Course type | Online Distance Learning | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | This course will introduce students to the different modes of visualising the body at the gross level including plain film X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI imaging.  It will also describe methods of enhancing images such as angiography, barium enemas. Barium swallows, PET scanning etc. | 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - understand at a basic level how each image is produced
 - be able to differentiate one type of image from another and know under what circumstances each is preferentially used
 - interpret and identify structures on each image
 
     
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
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| Keywords | Anatomy, Imaging, X-ray, MRI, CT, PET, ultrasound | 
 
 
Contacts 
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