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Diagnostic imaging in Nuclear Medicine (NM) - mod. TECHNIQUES AND PROTOCOLS MN
DAVIDE ULIVI

Seat Medicina e Chirurgia
A.A. 2013-2014
Credits 2
Hours 20
Period 2^ semestre
Language ENG
U-gov code MT07-11-11 MT042

Prerequisites
Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Physics, Chemistry

Development of the course
Understand the organization and the type of activity in a Nuclear Medicine, The use of caries related equipment and CQ of acquisition parameters that determine the success of the examination and affecting the quality and knowledge of any artyfacts.

Learning outcomes
learn techniques in nuclear medicine: a) Oncology (Bone scintigraphy, PET / CT). b) Cardiology (Heart Tomosc. gated - not gated, muga. ) c) neurology (SCAN DAT scintigraphy). d) pediatric nephrology also (DTPA scintigraphy , DMSA). e) gastroenterology pulmonology (lung perfusion scintigraphy, labeled red blood cells for bleeding research, Meckel's diverticulum search). f) infection and inflammation (scintigraphy with labeled leukocytes).

Program
Organization and management of the hot chamber, instrumentation, use of radionuclides and its Quality Control, preparing radiopharmaceuticals, instrumentation, CQ radiopharmaceuticals, quality control equipment, techniques of acquisition / image processing: Exams Static, Dynamic, Gated tomography with and without Gated, Pet / Tc, Respiratory Gating for Radiotherapy and centering. Artifacts, errors, problems related to the activity of the TSRM. Notes on the markings: leukocytes, red blood cells, blood platelets . Clinical risk and TSRM

Recommended reading
c) TITLE Fundamentals of Nuclear Medicine d) AUTHOR Volterrani, Erba, Mariani e) PUBLISHER Springer

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