Course: Practical Training in Nuclear Medicine 1

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Course title Practical Training in Nuclear Medicine 1
Course code RAM/RDA25
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pokorná Jolana, Mgr.
  • Kamínek Milan, prof. MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Horalík Jiří, Ing. Bc. DiS.
  • Vybíral Petr, Ing. Bc. DiS.
Course content
Work organization and technique at a Nuclear Medicine Clinic, Radiation Protection, Accidents, Overview of Ionizing Radiation Detectors Scintillation Detector, Evaluation Apparatus. Parameters of the Scintillator

Learning activities and teaching methods
Training in job and motor Skils
Learning outcomes
The aim is to learn and master the rudiments of protection from ionizing radiation, managing minor accidents according to an emergency plan, decontamination. Organisation and management at a department of nuclear medicine. Overview of ionization detectors. Doing calculations of applied activity and volume of radiopharmaceuticals, making corrections of applied activity with regard to half-life and patient's weight, assisting in the application of radiopharmaceuticals. Carrying out static scintigraphy under supervision.
Students manage incidents according to the incident regulations, they check measuring devices, they carry out calculations of applied activity and the amount of radiopharmaceuticals, and under supervision they perform static scintigraphy.
Prerequisites
unspecified
RAM/RDA01 and RAM/RDB51 and RAM/RDA52

Assessment methods and criteria
Dialog

100% attendance in practicals.
Recommended literature
  • Hušák, V. a kol. (2009). Radiační ochrana pro radiologické asistenty. UP Olomouc.
  • Hušák V. a kol. (2012). výukový portál LF UPOL - Fyzikální základy zobrazování v NM a radiační ochrana.
  • Koranda, P. (2014). Nukleární medicína. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.
  • Schulthess, Gustav Konrad von. (2016). Molecular Anatomic Imaging: PET/CT,PET/MR and CPECT/CT. Zurich, Swizerland: Wolters Kluwer.
  • V. Ullmann. www.astronuklfyzika.cz.


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