Base Knowledge
The student at this point should have basic knowledge on basic concepts of Nuclear Medicine and image processing. In addition, they must have knowledge of the theoretical content about the equipment used in Nuclear Medicine.
During the teaching of this curricular unit, the student must acquire, in parallel, knowledge of radiopharmacy and of methods and techniques of Nuclear Medicine.
Teaching Methodologies
The theoretical and practical lessons of this course will use an expository method of different theoretical definitions with discussion and problem solving in groups.
In the practical-laboratory component will be demonstrate/simulate the image processing and analyse about case studies involving relevant issues of the nuclear medicine.
Learning Results
The student must:
– Knowledge of acquisition parameters and factors which affect image quality in PET/CT and Gamma Camera.
-Skills in the identification, implementation and analysis of the fundamental techniques of image processing in Conventional Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, including methods of reconstruction, attenuation correction and quantification of imaging tools for each type of nuclear medicine exams.
-Competences to analyze and interpret images of Nuclear Medicine.
The theoretical, written and verbal knowledge, and practical of the taught subjects will develop skills to change acquisition parameters, implement methods of image processing and analyse imaging in nuclear medicine, in order to achieve the objective of the study.
Program
Processes involved in image formation in Nuclear Medicine and definition of concepts such as analog and digital imaging.
Description and manipulation of acquisition parameters affecting the image before processing.
Tools used in digital image processing (DIP) in Nuclear Medicine, as well as their application in different clinical areas (cardiology, oncology, neurology, orthopedics, nephrology, pulmonology, endocrinology).
Identification and description of factors that cause artifacts in the image of the different kind of exams in Nuclear Medicine.
Notions of analysis and interpretation of nuclear medicine images.
Case studies on different processing stations used in Nuclear Medicine
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Main Bibliography:
– Magdy M. Khalil (Ed.); Basic Sciences of Nuclear Medicine; Springer
– Saha, Gopal, 6th edition; Fundamental of Nuclear Pharmacy; Springer 2010
– LIMA, J. J. Pedroso de – Biofísica médica. Coimbra : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2003. XVII, 844 p.. ISBN 972-8704-09-7
– LIMA, Adriano Pedroso de [et al.] – Física em medicina nuclear : temas e aplicações. 1ª ed. Coimbra : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2008. 566 p. ISBN 978-989-8074-26-3
– KOWALSKY, Richard J. ; FALEN, Steven W. – Radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear pharmacy and nuclear medicine. Third Edition. Washington, D.C. : American Pharmacists Association, cop. 2011. xiii, 741 p.. ISBN 978-1-58212-118-5
– ZIESSMAN, Harvey A. ; O’MALLEY, Janis P. ; THRALL, James H. – Nuclear medicine. Fourth Edition. Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier/Saunders, cop. 2014. xi, 452 p.. ISBN 978-0-323-08299-0
Secondary Bibliography:
– Bernier, D.; Chrstian, P.; Langan, J. (1997). Nuclear Medicine: Technology & Tecniques. Baltimore, 4ª ed. Mosby.
– Biersack, Hans-Jürgen, Freeman, Leonard M. (2007). Clinical Nuclear Medicine. Springer
– Peter F. Sharp, Howard G. Gemmell and Alison D. Murray (2005). Practical Nuclear Medicine. Third Edition. Springer
– Abdelhamid H. Elgazzar (2006). The Pathophysiologic Basis of Nuclear Medicine. Second Edition. Springer
– Özülker, Tamer, Özülker, Filiz (2015). Atlas of PET-CT Imaging in Oncology. Springer
– Castleman, K. (1996). Digital Image Processing. Prentice-Hall, 1995. Cember, H. – Introduction to Health Physics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
– Habib Zaidi, Ph.D. (2006). Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging. Springer
– Chang, L. T. (1978) A method for attenuation correction in radionuclide computed. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 25:1 638-343.
– Sorenson, J.A. (1987). Physics in Nuclear Medicine, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company.
– David Hawkes and Derek Hill. Medical Image Registration. Edited by Joseph Hajnal, CRC Press, 2001
– Maria Lyra, Agapi Ploussi and Antonios Georgantzoglou; MATLAB as a Tool in Nuclear Medicine Image Processing; Radiation Physics Unit, A’ Radiology Department, University of Athens
– Philippe P. Bruyant; Analytic and Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms in SPECT; J Nucl Med. 2002;43:1343- 1358
– Maria Lyra andAgapi Ploussi; Filtering in SPECT Image Reconstruction; International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 5 April 2011
– Adam Alessio, PhD and Paul Kinahan, PhD; PET Image Reconstruction; Nuclear Medicine 2nd Ed
– Frederic H. Fahey, DSc; Data Acquisition in PET Imaging; J Nucl Med Technol 2002; 30:39_49