- 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)
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. SNMMITeaching methods
Oral lectures and clinical cases discussion
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Power Point presentation
Office hours
See the website of Valentina Ambrosini