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Nuclear Medicine Physics Lecture Series
UBC PHYS 541: Nuclear Medicine Physics (register at UBC page)
(When not offered as Phys 541, this can be taken as Directed Studies PHYS 555B or BMEG 554C)
Instructors: Arman Rahmim & Carlos Uribe
Semester Offered: Spring semester, typically on alternative years (and also offered as Directed Studies Course)
Prerequisite: None, since our course starts with the basics of nuclear physics.
Textbook: “Nuclear Medicine Physics: The Basics” by Chandra and Rahmim, 8th edition
Credits: 3
Supplemental material: You may find this book useful: “Physics in Nuclear Medicine” by Cherry, Sorenson, and Phelps, 4th edition
Course Outline: Basic principles of radioactive decay; radioisotope production; radiation detection and dosimetry; principles of operation of nuclear medicine instruments (planar, SPECT and PET); principles of tomography; image reconstruction and analysis; quantitative and dynamic imaging; radiopharmaceutical therapies and theranostics.
Missed exam: If you miss an exam session with a legitimate reason (e.g. illness, family emergency, …), see us to discuss make-up options.
Religious holidays: Students are entitled to request an alternate date if an exam falls on one of their holy days. If you think this may apply to you, please contact us as soon as possible to make an alternate arrangement (we need at least two week’s notice).
Tentative List of Topics by week:
- General introduction, examples of clinical applications
- Radioactive decays
- Production of radioisotopes
- Interaction of radiation with matter
- Radiation detection and detectors
- Dosimetry, internal dose and radiation protection
- Electronics and counting systems, Anger camera
- Error analysis; counting statistics
- Principles of tomography, Radon transform, digital filters
- Analytic reconstruction methods
- Iterative reconstruction methods
- SPECT and SPECT/CT imaging
- PET and PET/CT imaging
- Quality control
- Image processing, dynamic imaging, kinetic models
- Radiopharmaceutical therapies and theranostics