ADVANCED NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO MEDICINE
Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year - Curriculum APPLIED PHYSICS and Curriculum NUCLEAR PHENOMENA AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Teaching Staff: Giorgio RUSSO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/01 - Experimental physics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/01 - Experimental physics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
The course has the following learning objectives:
provide students with the knowledge:
- the biological effects of radiation, illustrating the basic principles of radiobiology;
- physical and technological principles of Single Photon Emission Tomography;
- physical and technological principles of Positron Emission Tomography;
- of the main methods for the verification of the quality of SPECT images;
- of the main methods fro the verification of the quality of PET images.
Course Structure
Frontal Lessons and some guided visit in clinical departments
Detailed Course Content
- Biological Effects of Radiation
- Nuclear Medicine Imaging
- SPECT
- PET
- Processing of Medical Images
- Radiomic
Textbook Information
The reference book is "Nuclear Medicine Physics - IAEA"