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ADVANCED NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO MEDICINE

Academic Year 2020/2021 - 1° Year - Curriculum PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINE and Curriculum NUCLEAR PHENOMENA AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Teaching Staff: Giorgio RUSSO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/07 - Applied physics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 2°

Learning Objectives

  • Knowledge and understanding
    • Biology and Radiobiology
    • Basic Physics Principles of Nuclear Imaging
    • Basic Physics of Radioprotection for a Nuclear Medicine Facility
  • Applying knowledge and understanding
    • Gamma Camera
    • SPECT
    • PET
    • Design of a Nuclear Medicine Facility
    • Design of a Radiochemistry Facility
  • Making Judgements
    • Select some new papers to deepen a topic of the course
  • Communication Skills
    • Power point presentation on a topic of the course
  • Learning Skills
    • experimental sessions to measure some PET parameters for the quality assurance

Course Structure

  • Frontal Lessons
  • Experimental experiences at microPET/CT facility of CAPIR center
  • Guided Visit at Nuclear Medicine Department and Radiochemistry Facility of Cannizzaro Hospital
  • Should the circumstances require online or blended teaching, appropriate modifications to what is hereby stated may be introduced, in order to achieve the main objectives of the course.

Detailed Course Content

  1. Basic physics for nuclear medicine
  2. Basic Radiobiology
  3. Radiatio Protection for a nuclear medicine facility
  4. Radionuclide Production
  5. Electronics related to nuclear medicine imaging devices
  6. ​Generic performance measures for image system
  7. radionuclide calibrator
  8. radiation safety in radiopharmacy
  9. shielding for radionuclides
  10. designing a radiopharmacy
  11. Principle of Computed Tomography
  12. Gamma Camera Systems
  13. PET Systems
  14. SPECT/CT and PET/CT
  15. Quantitative Nuclear Medicine
  16. Quality assurance in SPECT
  17. Quality assurance in PET

Textbook Information

  • Nuclear Medicine Physics - A Handbook for teachers and students - IAEA, 2014 for arguments: [1-10] and [12-14]
  • Principles of CT and CT Technology - J. Nucl. Med. Technolo. - 2007 for argument 11
  • Quality Assurance for PET and PET/CT Systems for argument 17