Medical Imaging

Course Overview

Why University of Surrey? In addition to University of Surrey's mix of lectures, laboratories, clinical demonstrations and hospital visits, our MSc will develop you as a professional, enhancing your ability to take on new challenges with confidence. Our graduates often say, "I can do things now that I did not think I could do, before the MSc! "Medical Imaging Programme OverviewThe term -medical imaging- may invoke images of brain slices acquired from modern scanners. However, the breadth of this subject is far wider. Applications include the creation of 3D graphical models for facial reconstruction from scan data, the visualisation of complex vascular (blood vessel) structures to assist keyhole surgical procedures, techniques for creating patient-specific 3D modelling of human organ shapes and image-based methods designed to detect various pathologies and disease states in humans. Medical imaging is a rapidly-growing discipline within the healthcare sector, involving clinicians, physicists, computer scientists and those in IT industries. This is fuelled by the rapid advancement of 3D medical imaging systems over the last few decades, matched by an exponential rise in computing power, which has paved the way for new methods of acquisition, reconstruction, processing and display of digital medical image data with unprecedented speed, resolution and contrast: a trend which can only continue. Why not read about past and present student experiences of our electronic engineering programmes, including Christopher Lord, Christos Merkouris and Prashant Butani? Teaching and assessment, Taught Masters programmes in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey utilise our research-active staff, in conjunction with state-of-the-art facilities. We provide a range of learning experiences - lectures, tutorials, directed study, practical laboratories and project work - that prepare graduates for their professional life. Lectures, visits and dissertation projects are provided in association with a large number of expert clinical and industrial partners, including the Royal Marsden Hospital, GE Healthcare and the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Formal examinations take place in January/February and June. The pass mark is set at 50 per cent for each module, representing a combination of the formal examination and any associated coursework or lab marks. An overall average (aggregated over all of the assessed modules) in excess of 70 per cent achieves a Pass with Distinction. Following the spring examinations, you will concentrate on your formal dissertation project. This may be based at the university in collaboration with a clinical or industrial partner, or may be based at a hospital or industrial site, usually within the UK. Finally, your dissertation project will be assessed at a viva voce examination in late August/early September. Facilities, equipment and support, To support your learning, we hold regular MSc group meetings where any aspect of the programme, technical or non-technical, can be discussed in an informal atmosphere. This allows you to raise any problems that you would like to have addressed and encourages peer-based learning and general group discussion. We provide computing support with any specialised software required during the programme, for example, Matlab. The Department-s student common room is also covered by the university-s open-access wireless network, which makes it a very popular location for individual and group work using laptops and mobile devices. There is also a Faculty quiet room for individual study. We pride ourselves on the many opportunities that we provide to visit collaborating hospitals. These enable you to see first-hand demonstrations of medical imaging facilities and to benefit from lectures by professional practitioners. To support material presented during the programme, you will also undertake a selection of ultrasound and radiation detection experiments, hosted by our sister MSc programme in Medical Physics.

Program Outline