NUCLEAR MEDICINE EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

TR32C4C

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2020/2021

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in IMAGING AND RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES

Disciplinary Sector:

Applied Medical Sciences

Is part of:

RADIOTHERAPY AND IMAGING TECHNIQUES WITH RADIONUCLIDES

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FRANCIOTTI Raffaella

Cycle:

Second semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Principle of Physics.

Objectives

Students will have knowledge of the effective functioning of devices useful for daily activities in nuclear medicine. They can use these studies for specific and necessary needs in different situations.

Contents

The course will focus on the main technologies used in nuclear medicine with a look on their clinical applications.

Extended Syllabus

Decay processes: gamma decay and revelation. Gamma camera. Parameters and methods of planar and tomographic acquisition. SPECT.
Beta decay. PET. PET acquisition parameters. Noise in PET.
The radiopharmacy. Radiopharmaceuticals and their characteristics. The 99mTc generator. Radiopharmaceutical marking. Distribution of the radiopharmaceutical within the body's tissues.
The cyclotron. The tracers for PET.
Diagnostic reference levels in nuclear medicine.
Nuclear medical applications: thyroid scintigraphy with 99mTc pertechnetate; Oncology imaging with 99mTc-MDP; scintigraphy in pulmonary embolism; bone scintigraphy in musculoskeletal infections: in vitro cell labeling with 99mTc-HMPAO.
Hybrid systems.

Recommended Bibliography

Slides used during the lessons and bibliographic material available online.

Teaching Methods

The teaching is structured in 10 hours of frontal lessons with multimedia support and/or distant education by online learning.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam.

Contacts/More Information

The attendance compulsion is 70%.
Students will be received by the teacher every Wednesday from 9 am to 11 am and upon appointment which has to be agreed via e-mail to the address raffaella.franciotti@unich.it.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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