Medical Physics for Physicists Content Module 3
Nuclear Medicine
- Nuclear medicine diagnostics and therapy
- Introduction to physical principles and detector technology
- Nuclear medicine instrumentation
- Radionuclide production and quality control
- Biological radiation effects of radiolabeled substances, including their dosimetry and biokinetics
- Data acquisition and processing, tomographic image reconstruction, mathematical models for scatter and attenuation correction
- Introduction to optical tomography
- Clinical presentation of nuclear medicine procedures (medical aspects of SPECT and PET as well as tracer kinetic modeling)
- Practical exercises in nuclear medicine physics