39386 - Nuclear Medicine Imaging

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8485)

Learning outcomes

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

Course contents

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

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

3. Principles of nuclear target therapy

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 examination

Teaching tools

Power Point presentation

Office hours

See the website of Valentina Ambrosini