PV184 Scientific Instruments

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Miroslav Vařecha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ing. Jana Amrichová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Jiří Sochor, CSc.
Department of Visual Computing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: Mgr. Miroslav Vařecha, Ph.D.
Timetable
Fri 10:00–11:50 C416
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 37 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Student will learn about various instruments used mainly in science and medicine. How these instruments work and what type of data they collect and export to be processed especially by image analysis.
Syllabus
  • Principles of function of various instruments: laser, photomultiplier, CCD camera, optical fibre, magnetic resonance spectrometer, optical and electron microscopy, near-field and atomic force microscopy, mass spectroscopy, use of ultrasound in medicine, EKG and EEG, brain MRI, roentgen tomography (also known as CT) etc.
Literature
  • PROSSER, Václav. Experimentální metody biofyziky. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1989, 712 s. ISBN 8020000593. URL info
  • Leoš Navrátil, Jozef Rosina a kolektiv: Medicínská biofyzika. Grada Publishing, a. s., 2005.
  • Biofyzikální učebnice online. http://web.archive.org/web/20030801213606/www.biophysics.org/btol/
  • FyzWeb Univerzita Karlova: Fyzikální stránky pro každého. http://fyzweb.cuni.cz
Assessment methods (in Czech)
kolokvium ve formě písemného testu
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
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