Teaching
Basic Principles of Two- and Three-Dimensional X-Ray Imaging Course no.: 9221560
Dr. rer. nat. Simon Zabler & Dr. Theobald Fuchs
(4 hours per week, lecture with seminar presentations, exam)
Friday, 10:00 - 13:00 Uhr
Campus Hubland Nord - SE 63.00.319
Contents
- Physics of x-ray generation (x-ray tubes, synchrotron)
- Physics of the interaction of x-rays and matter (photoabsorption, scattering)
- Physics of x-ray detection
- Mathematics of reconstruction algorithms (filtered back projection, Fourier reconstruction, iterative methods)
- Image data preprocessing, feature extraction, visualisation, ...
- Applications for x-ray imaging in industry (component testing, characterisation of materials, metrology, biology, ...)
- Radiation protection and biological radiation effect (dose, ...)
Imaging Methods on Synchrotron Course no.: 9230700
Dr. Simon Zabler
(3 hours per week, lecture/practical work)
Friday, 13:00 - 17:00 Uhr
Campus Hubland Nord - SE 63.00.319
Contents
- Overview of Synchrotron radiation and its generation
- Basic principles of interaction of radiation - matters
- Basic principles of X-ray optics, X-ray lenses
- Detector technology on Synchrotron/X-Ray diffractometry (diffraction) on cristalline materials
- Narrow-angle scattering on mesoscopic materials
- Reflectometry in grazing incidence
- Coherent and partially coherent imaging and tomography
- Spectroscopic imaging (XANES, XRF, EXAFS)
- Selected examples of applications (e. g. Protein cristallization)
Methods of Non-Destructive Material- and Component Characterization course no.: 9230620
Prof. Dr. Randolf Hanke & Dr. Norman Uhlmann
(3 hours per week, lecture/practical work)
Friday, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Campus Hubland Nord - SE 63.00.319
Contents
- X-ray imaging
- Computer tomography (basic principles, methods and applications)
- Neutron radiology
- Ultrasound ( basic principles and applications )
- Thermography
Image- and Signal Processing in Physics course no.: 9230740
Dr. Simon Zabler & Dr. Theobald Fuchs
(4 hours per week, lecture/practical work)
Friday, 10:00 - 12:00 (lecture)
Friday, 14:00 - 16:00 (practical work)
Physik SE 6
Contents
- Periodic and aperiodic signals
- Basic principles of discrete and exact Fourier-transformation
- Basic principles of digital signal- and image processing
- Discretization of signals / sampling theorem (Shannon)
- Homogenenous and linear filters, the convolution product
- Window functions and interpolation of images
- The Parseval-Theorem, correlation and energetic considerations
- Statistical signals, image noise, moments, stationary signals
- Tomography: Hankel- und Radon-transforms
