39386 - Nuclear Medicine Imaging

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 discussion aimed at assessing both the knowledge of the basic concepts of nucleare 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

Teaching tools

Power Point presentation

Office hours

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