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MEDT4165

Signal Processing in Ultrasound Imaging

Assessments and mandatory activities may be changed until September 20th.

Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Spring 2026
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

The course teaches theoretical and practical use of ultrasound imaging, with emphasis on system analysis and signal processing. The main focus is medical applications.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

  • Knowledge about signal processing
  • Knowledge about the physics and implementation of ultrasound image formation
  • Knowledge about methods for representing dynamic image information
  • Knowledge about the mathematical model for pulse-echo imaging systems based on signals in space and time
  • Knowledge about the effects of limited bandwidth and sampling in imaging
  • Knowledge about the ultrasound signal processing chain from transmitted signal to displayed image
  • Knowledge about dynamic representation of images using multi-dimensional Fourier analysis
  • Knowledge about power spectrum and autocorrelation estimation from Doppler signals

Skills:

  • Skills to design a practical ultrasound imaging system
  • Skills to generate ultrasound images from raw channel data
  • Skills to implement signal processing for estimating movement of objects with ultrasound
  • Skills to perform numerical calculations, visualization, and presentation of results in Matlab and/or Python

General knowledge:

  • Programming and practical signal processing
  • Be able to evaluate tradeoffs and justify design choices
  • Use technical and precise language for physics and signal processing used in ultrasound imaging

Learning methods and activities

Lectures will be given throughout the whole semester. Lectures, laboratory exercises, programming and theoretical exercises. Mandatory exercises: 6 out of 10 exercises must be approved to be allowed to take the final exam. Approved exercises are valid until the end of the next year of study.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

The written exam counts 100% of the final grade. During the course, 10 exercises will be given, of which 6 need to be approved in order to take the exam. An exercise is approved if the score is higher than 50%. You are allowed to retake the exam with approved exercises from the last year of study. Re-sit examination is arranged as an oral exam in august.

Course materials

Textbook and/or lecture notes will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TTK4165 7.5 sp Autumn 2017
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • ICT and Mathematics
  • Medical Technology
  • Medical Physics
  • Medical Computer Science
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Telecommunications
  • Biophysics and Medical Technology
  • Biophysics
  • Engineering Cybernetics
  • Technological subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Spring 2026

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code D Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment Place and room Not specified yet.

Re-sit examination - Summer 2026

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code D Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment Place and room Not specified yet.