26-S103 All the Light We Cannot See: Exploring Medical Imaging – John Mercer
$85.00
Please note: Individual sessions of this course will be recorded and available to registered students outside of the actual course time.
This course will be an introduction to medical imaging and how it plays a role in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of human disease. This will include the history of the development of the major types of medical imaging including X-ray, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and nuclear medicine imaging (SPECT, PET). We will also explore how each of these imaging modalities work and how the images are interpreted by healthcare practitioners. Don’t worry if your science background is a bit fuzzy as the course is designed for a general, curious audience and we will travel slowly and carefully through the physics, chemistry and engineering involved in imaging.
Instructor: John Mercer
Dr. John Mercer is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. He was born in England, grew up in Cape Breton and has degrees from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick and the University of Alberta. He spent a short time in industry before accepting a faculty position in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and later in Radiology and Oncology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the U of A. John’s research interests were in nuclear medicine imaging and he taught a variety of courses in Pharmacy and Medicine including a short course on medical imaging which became the basis for the present offering with ELLA.
