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Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy
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Extended Syllabus - Basic concepts of nuclear medicine: functional imaging and radiopharmaceuticals
- Quality of scintigraphic images (count statistics, spatial resolution) and TSRM choices that affect image quality (collimator, analyzer window, matrix, zoom, etc)
- Acquisition techniques: planar and tomographic
- Gamma camera
- Gamma camera acquisitions: dynamic, static segmental, static whole body
- Bone scintigraphy
- Renal scintigraphy (dynamic and static)
- Thyroid scintigraphy
- Theranostics in nuclear medicine
- Parathyroid scintigraphy
- Study of infectious/inflammatory processes (labeled leukocytes scintigraphy)
- Pulmonary perfusion scintigraphy
- Sentinel lymph node scintigraphy
- Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPET)
- SPECT image reconstruction: Filtered back-projection and OSEM
- SPECT applications in neurology
- SPECT applications in cardiology
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET): principles of the PET-CT scanner
- PET acquisitions: dynamic, segmental, whole body, list mode, gated
- PET radiopharmaceuticals and their main applications in oncology, cardiology, neurology, inflammations
- Main pitfall in PET-CT
- Main moments of a PET-CT examination with and without CE
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