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NUCLEAR MEDICINE EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents The course will focus on the main technologies used in nuclear medicine with a look on their clinical applications.
Extended Syllabus The radiopharmacy. Radiopharmaceuticals and their characteristics. The 99mTc generator. Radiopharmaceutical marking. Distribution of the radiopharmaceutical within the body's tissues.
Decay processes: gamma decay and revelation. Gamma camera. Quantum efficiency. Spatial and energy resolution. Gamma camera performance. Parameters and methods of planar and tomographic acquisition. SPECT.
Beta decay. PET. PET acquisition parameters. TOF-PET. Noise in PET. The tracers for PET. The cyclotron.
Hybrid systems.
Recommended Bibliography Slides used during the lessons and bibliographic material available online.
Teaching Methods The course is structured in 10 hours of frontal lessons with multimedia support.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Written and/or 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 .