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84988 - Imaging in Nuclear Medicine -

Academic Year 2020/2021

                
                        Docente:
                        Valentina Ambrosini
                    
                        Credits:
                        3
                    
                        SSD:
                        MED/36
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8485)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The course provides knowledge on the basic principles of nuclear medicine procedures (scintigraphy, SPECT, PET/CT) and radionuclide therapy.

Course contents

1. Basi nuclear medicine principles

2. Conventional imaging: scintigraphy (renal, myocardial, renal, bone, thyroid, parathyroid, lymphoscintigraphy, leukocyte, eritrocyte, lung)

3. PET/CT imaging: clinical applications of 18F-FDG PET/CT and non-FDG tracers

4. Principles of radiometabolic therapy and current clinical applications

Readings/Bibliography

1. Principles and practice of PET/CT. part 1 and 2. Technologist's Guide. Official publication of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2. Taylor, Schuster, Alazraki. Medicina Nucleare. Edizioni Minerva Medica

3. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. Editors: Hans-Jungen Biersack, Leonard M.Freeman. Springer

4. Nuclear Oncology. Editors: Cumali Aktolum, Stanley J. Goldsmith. Wolters Kluwer

5. Quick reference protocl manual for NM technologists.Authors: Mary Beth Farrell, MS, CNMT, NCT, FSNMMI-TS, Editor Eleanor S. Mantel, CNMT, NCT, RT(N), FSNMMI-TS,Danny A. Basso, CNMT, NCT, FSNMMI-TS, Kathy S. Thomas, MHA, CNMT, PET, FSNMMI-TS Bryan R. Kerr, CNMT, PET, NCT, RT(N)(CT)(ARRT). ISBN: 978-0-932004-88-8; 344 pp. SNMMI

Teaching methods

Oral lectures and clinical cases discussion

Assessment methods

Oral discussion aimed at assessing both the knowledge of the basic concepts of nuclear medicine procedures and the degree of independence of the student in merging theoretical and practical concepts. Particular relevance will be attributed to the aquired skills of ameliorating the quality of the obtained images for the nuclear medicine physicians' reporting.

Limited knowledge and critical analysis → 18-19;
Basic knowledge, basic critical analysis→ 20-24;
Broad knowledge, independent and critical analysis, appropiate and detailed oral presentation → 25-29;
Exhaustive knowledge, independent and critical analysis, full ability to take decisions, appropiate terminolgy → 30-30L.

Teaching tools

Power Point presentation; clinical case discussion

Office hours

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