FI:PV184 Scientific Instruments - Course Information

PV184 Scientific Instruments

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

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Mathematical Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, B-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics and Image Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems and Data Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Programmable Technical Structures (programme FI, B-IN)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

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.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
  
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