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Medical Image Processing

From 2D to 3D Spartan demo #1 Demo #1: pixels at work Pixels explained pixel-by-pixel Spartan demo #2 Demo #2: pixels at work Radiographer, physicist, radiologist Slice whichever way you like What’s in the pixel value?Noise and resolution shouldn’t be mixed up Image contrast Image “quality”Magnifying Vector graphics Behind the scenes Reducing noice, improving contrast, increasing resolution Partial volume effect Compare 4 images: part I Compare 4 images: part II Cannulation during CT scans Grayscale is not black-and-white Fancy color-maps I Fancy color-maps II Color maps: a bad example Delineating white matter from gray matter Color maps: a good example Color assignment Digital photos vs medical images Windowing Wide windows Narrow windows Inherent vs display contrasts Guys we’ve been seeing Pablo and VIP-Man Quantities for imagine QA phantoms Origin of noise Photoelectric or Compton?Field size Matrix dimensions Pitch Bytes per pixel Magic number 256 Metadata

Photon Interactions

Monte Carlo Radiation Transport

FLUKA

Radiotherapy

Machine Learning

Astronomy

Bytes per pixel

Bytes-per-pixel depends on the colour depth. Deeper depths require more bytes per pixel and allow more shades on our palette.

Medical Image Processing

Medical Image Processing

Magic number 256

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