39864 - Nuclear Medicine Physics

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

Duccio Volterrani · Paola Anna Erba · Giuliano Mariani (a cura di): Fondamenti di medicina nucleare Tecniche e applicazioni - Springer-Verlag Italia S.r.l.

ISBN 978-88-470-1684-2
The teacher will provide the slides which - integrated with notes taken following the lessons - can replace the text.

Teaching methods

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

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 Giuseppe Baldazzi