Academic Year 2018/2019
- Docente: Stefano Fanti
- Credits: 4
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The course includes lectures on Radiology, Radiotherapy and Nuclear
Medicine. The aim of the course in to enable the students to become
confident with the clinical indications of the various imaging and
therapeutic procedures. In particular, the course aims to provide
knowledge on how to choose the most appropriate technique in
radiology (conventional, vascular and intervnetional radiology,
computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound).
Regarding radiotherapy , students are expected to learn the basic
priniples of the effects of yhe radiotion in biology , their use
for treatment in oncology and in specific non-neoplastic conditions
as well as the most relevant applications (brachitherapy,
transdermal radiotherapy, the use of CT for radiotherapy planning,
the integration with other diagnostic procedures, such as PET, MRI,
to optimize treatment efficacy reducing toxicity).
Nuclear Medicine lectures aim to provide knowledge on the potential
utility of functional imaging (scontigrafy, SPECT, PET/TC) and
their clinical applications and additional value in the diagnostic
work-up.
Students are expected to acquire knowledge on how to choose
the most appropriate radiological procedure to answer the diagnostc
query, optimizing the cost/benefit ratio in order to reduce the
number of inappropriate procedures with related toxicity and costs.
Moreover, students will be aware of the need of a multidisciplinary
approach for an optimal managment of the oncological patient
that is addressed to radiotherapy and of the criteria to choose the
most appropriate nucleare medicine procedure and their additional
value with respect to conventional imaging modalities.
Course contents
BASIC NUCLEAR MEDICINE NOTIONS:
- Basic physics and radiopharmacy notions
- Pros and Cons of nuclear medicine procedures as compared to other
imaging techniques
Scintigraphy
- bone scintigrahy
- renal scintigraphy
- thyroid scintigraphy
- adrenal scintigraphy
- lung scintigraphy
SPECT
myocardical SPECT
brain SPECT
PET/TC
- imaging with 18F-FDG tracers
- imaging with non 18F-FDG tracers
Basic principles of radionuclide therapy
Readings/Bibliography
R. Passariello, G. Simonetti - Compendio di radiologia per studenti
e medici di medicina nucleare - Idelson Gnocchi - Napoli,
2002
G. Cittadini - Diagnostica per immagini e radioterapia - ECIG -
Genova, 2003
N. Monetti, S. Fanti, E. Lopci - Compendio di Medicina Nucleare -
Bologna, 2013
Taylor, Schuster, Alazraki - Medicina Nucleare - Edizioni Minerva
Medica
Teaching methods
Oral lectures and clinical cases discussion.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Power point presentation.
Office hours
See the website of Stefano Fanti