DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2021/2022
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2023/2024
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Seat of the course: 
Varese - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Credits: 
1
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
12
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (12 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Course module include this topics:
-Essentials in digital imaging
-Acquiring and processing strategies in Nuclear medicine: static, dynamic, wholebody and gated acquisitions; SPECT, PET, hybrid imaging modalities.
-Post-Processing tools: Image corrections, Fourier analysis (digital filters, temporal filters, gating processing)
-Image reconstruction tools (Filterback projection and iterative algorithms).
-Image segmentation and registration procedures.
-Image Measuring techniques (activity-time curves, fourier analisys, statistical methods)
-Image artfact in nuclear medicine: how to prevent it.
-Dose reduction strategies and mid-term technology developments.

Six online Lectures are token into account by the Course module.
All teaching docs are available after lessons on e-learning website.

Professors

MENZAGHI MARCO

Parent course