39864 - Nuclear Medicine Physics

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Mario Marengo
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: FIS/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8485)

Learning outcomes

Student will learn:

  1. Bases of Nuclear Medicine and metabolic imaging

  2. Radioactive decay types and law and how to perform simple decay calculations.

  3. Principles and use of the 99Mo/99mTc generator.

  4. Principles and use of the radionuclide activity calibrator.

Course contents

  1. Introduction to Nuclear Medicine. Atomic structure: Rutherford model; nucleons and electrons. Massa and atomic number. Isotopes. Nuclides symbols.

  2. Radioactivity: alfa, beta and beta+, IT decay. X fluorescence and Auger electrons.

  3. Law of radioactive decay. Parent-daughter decay. Exercises.

  4. Radiation interaction with matter. Range and relative hazard of beta an alpha particles. Photons interactions.

  5. 99Mo/99mTc generator: characterises and use.

  6. Radionuclide calibrators: principles and use.

Readings/Bibliography

Marengo M.: “La Fisica in Medicina Nucleare” . Patron Editore, Bologna, 2001 ISBN 88-555-2582-4 (in Italian)


Teaching methods

  1. Lectures with presentation of slides (all the slides are available in English as well)

  2. Exercises with simple calculation using a scietific calculator and/or spreadsheets

  3. Guided visits to Laboratories in the S.Orsola – Malpighi University Hospital

Assessment methods

Oral examination, with exercises and/or multiple choice questionnaires

Teaching tools

  1. Lectures with presentation of slides (all the slides are available in English as well)

  2. Exercises with simple calculation using a scietific calculator and/or spreadsheets

  3. Guided visits to Laboratories in the S.Orsola – Malpighi University Hospital

Office hours

See the website of Mario Marengo