Medical and Dental Imaging

Recommended Prerequisites

A. Knowledge – basic skills and knowledge acquired in integrated undergraduate/master's degrees in the field of Dentistry and Medicine.

B. Skills and Attitudes – English Language, Information and Communication Technologies, Proactivity, Professionalism, and Interpersonal Relationship Skills.

Teaching Methods

T and P:

The teaching methodology will include involvement and students participation techniques, supported by audiovisual means, including eventual autonomous specific individual search.

Learning Outcomes

To know, understand and present the most relevant points of radiation physics, radiographic techniques, theoretical grounds of the imagiologic methods, oro-maxilo-facial pathology and its radiography presentation, as well as obtaining and reading medical images, in a new framework of digital technologies in clinical and reseach activities.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

• Advantages of digital radiological techniques (on-line content)
- Direct digital radiology;
- Computed Axial Tomography (CAT);
- CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography)
- Magnetic Resonance
• Improved tools/new imaging tools (on-line content)
• Scanners and CAD CAM (face-to-face content)
• Image processing and segmentation software (on-line content)
• Augmented and virtual reality (face-to-face content)
• Artificial intelligence algorithms for the assessment and detection of pathologies (face-to-face content)
• Artificial intelligence learning in the image (face-to-face content)
• Digital workflow (face-to-face content)
• Follow-up of patients with new technologies (on-line content)
• Dental telemedicine (on-line content)
• Application of devices such as mobile phones in medical imaging (face-to-face content)
• Adapting the organization/clinic to a digital flow (face-to-face content)
• Applicable legislation (radiation, data storage...) (on-line content).

Head Lecturer(s)

José Pedro Henriques Figueiredo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Continuous assessment according to e-log book : 50.0%

Bibliography

1. Körner, M., Weber, C. H., Wirth, S., Pfeifer, K. J., Reiser, M. F., & Treitl, M. (2007). Advances in digital radiography: physical principles and system overview. Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc, 27(3), 675–686. https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.273065075
2. van der Stelt P. F. (2021). From pixel to image analysis. Dento maxillo facial radiology, 50(2), 20200305. https://doi.org/10.1259/dmfr.20200305
3. Vanella, V., Castagnola, R., Marigo, L., Grande, N. M., & Plotino, G. (2021). A comparison of near-infrared imaging with other diagnostic tools for dental caries. Minerva dental and oral science, 70(5), 214–222. https://doi.org/10.23736/S2724-6329.21.04527-7
4. Piovesan, A., Vancauwenberghe, V., Van De Looverbosch, T., Verboven, P., & Nicolaï, B. (2021). X-ray computed tomography for 3D plant imaging. Trends in plant science, 26(11), 1171–1185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.07.010