Syllabus
- Sources of ionizing radiation and their use in nuclear medicine for diagnosis and therapy.
- Dosimetry and radiobiology at the cellular level (direct and indirect effects of radiation, deterministic and stochastic effects), the issue of small doses (the effects of small doses on human health).
- Devices of the nuclear medicine - detection and instrumentation, gas detectors, scintillation and semiconductor detectors, scintillation gamma cameras, tomographic systems, multi-detector camera.
- Summary of the parameters of display devices (spatial resolution, sensitivity, homogeneity, contrast, quality control), whole-body imaging, tomographic imaging systems, hybrid systems, SPECT / CT, PET / CT.
- Computer processing of data in nuclear medicine - planar examination:
Types of studies (static, dynamic, gated and whole body), accumulation, processing and display of the scanned data, analog and digital images, image filtering, mathematical image processing - averaging images, background subtraction, functional and parametric images , region of interest, curve processing.
- Computer processing of data in nuclear medicine - tomography examinations:
The reconstruction of data, simple back projection, filtered back projection, filters and their parameters, iterative algorithms, quantitative view, fusion and image registration. Spatial resolution, sensitivity, examples of clinical applications.
Annotation
As part of this optional course is to give an overview of instrumentation in nuclear medicine with an emphasis on fundamental physical principles, technical performance, important parameters of modality, image processing and the other specifics of use in clinical practice.
The language of teaching will be English / Czech, according to enrolled students.