Corso di Laurea in Tecniche di Radiologia Medica, per Immagini e Radioterapia - Cuneo

 After completing the course, students must:

-Have acquired theoretical knowledge on the activities of the Radiology Technician inside a Nuclear Medicine Service

- Know the daily used equipment in a service of Nuclear Medicine

-Have acquired the basics regarding management and production of radiopharmaceuticals

-Be able to describe the equipment using guidelines, in relation to the types of procedures to be conducted

-Know the main exam protocols in Nuclear Medicine.

 PHYSICS AND EQUIPMENT IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE:
- The gamma camera: detectors, collimator, calibration.
- Digital images in nuclear medicine, the reconstruction of tomographic images.
- Quality controls on the gamma camera.
- Positron emission tomography: the PET scanners, detector materials, components of the response of a PET system, attenuation correction and scattering.
- Notes on the cyclotron.

NUCLEAR MEDICINE I:
- The Nuclear Medicine Service: structural, organizational and regulatory
- The radiopharmaceuticals: regulatory issues, the rule of preparation of radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear medicine, techniques of production of radioactive isotopes, the generator of 99mTc, quality control
- The study of the thyroid and parathyroid: general principles, methodological aspects and diagnostic indications
- The study of the kidney: general principles, methodological aspects and diagnostic indications
- The study of the respiratory system: general principles, methodological aspects and diagnostic indications
- The study of the digestive system: general principles, methodological aspects and diagnostic indications
- The diagnosis of cancer and inflammatory disease with techniques conventional Nuclear Medicine: general principles, methodological aspects and diagnostic indications
- The techniques of Nuclear Medicine in emergency and diagnostic methods infrequent. DEXA
- Written assessment test

NUCLEAR MEDICINE II:

• Multi-modality imaging PET-CT and SPET-CT
• FDG-PET imaging: principles and applications
• Nuclear cardiology: radiopharmaceuticals, diagnostic methods, applications
• Nuclear neurology: radiopharmaceuticals, diagnostic methods, applications
• Skeletal system diseases: bone scintigraphy, scintigraphy with marked leukocytes, radiopharmaceuticals, diagnostic methods, applications
• References to radiobiology, basics and principles of radiopharmaceuticals, radioprotection and radiotherapy.

TECHNIQUES IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE:

• Techniques of examination:Static, Dynamic, Total body, SPET, Gated, GatedSPECT, PET.
• Protocols and technical execution of the main diagnostic procedures in traditional nuclear medicine and PET.
• Post-processing Protocols and image management.
• Role of the Radiology Technician Radiation-Metabolic Therapy; application of the Good Preparation Normative and execution of quality controls on nuclear medicine equipment
• The management of a complex structure such as the department of nuclear medicine
• Basics of sector specific legislation.

• 24 hours for the module "Physics and equipment in Nuclear Medicine",
• 36 hours for the module"Nuclear Medicine I",
• 36 hours for the module"Nuclear Medicine II"
• 24 hours for the module "Techniques in Nuclear Medicine".

In the oral exam students will be asked about the arguments explained during the lessons.

Each individual module has a weight of 25%.

The final assessment is expressed in thirtieths through a weighted average of each evaluation.