This is a Clinical Training course designed to introduce the resident to the practical use and evaluation of the main imaging equipment found in typical nuclear medicine departments. Students will be actively involved in the use and performance evaluation of SPECT-CT. Medical physicists are required to undertake testing, use and optimization of all the imaging devices found in a nuclear medicine department.
• Dose calibrators
• Scintillation probes and well counters
• Gamma camera and SPECT
• Display and printing devices, Viewing conditions
• Two Written Report (2000 words) 40%
• Clinical Evaluations 60%
On successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Manage all aspects of a routine nuclear medicine quality control programme.
2. Perform all dose calibrator quality control procedures needed to ensure accurate measurements of radioactivity.
3. Perform quality control procedures for the scintillation probe and well counter.
4. Perform SPECT QC procedures.
5. Appraise factors affecting image quality on display monitors and hard copy devices.
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