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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lecture: 1) Introduction to nuclear medicine 2) History and principles of radionuclide examinations 3) Importance of diagnostic and therapeutic methods in nuclear medicine 4) Radiopharmaceuticals - sources of radionuclides, the most commonly used radiopharmaceuticals and their properties; quality control, application of radiopharmaceuticals, biological behavior of radiopharmaceuticals 5) SPECT - difference between transmission and emission tomography, reconstruction algorithms, attenuation correction, quality control, artifacts in images, examples of use 6) PET - principle of coincidence, detectors for PET, PET camera parameters, image reconstruction, positron radionuclides, application examples Exercises: 1) Physics in nuclear medicine 2) Principles of radionuclide examinations 3) Diagnostic and therapeutic methods in nuclear medicine 4) Radiopharmaceuticals 5) SPECT 6) PET
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Students' self-study
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on the introduction to nuclear medicine, radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine, SPECT, PET and their principles, properties, applications.
Students obtain knowledge in given course in accordance with requirements and course programme.
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Prerequisites
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Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Test
Credit: - 80% participation in exercises, - self-study, - written test.
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Recommended literature
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HUŠÁK, Václav. Radiační ochrana pro radiologické asistenty. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2009. ISBN 978-80-244-2350-0.
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KORANDA, Pavel. Nukleární medicína. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014. ISBN 978-80-244-4031-6.
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KUBINYI, J., J. SABOL a A. VONDRÁK. Principy radiační ochrany v nukleární medicíně a dalších oblastech práce s otevřenými radioaktivními látkami.. Praha: Grada, 2018. ISBN 978-80-271-0168-9.
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MÍKOVÁ, Vlasta. Nukleární medicína: průřez vyšetřovacími metodami v oboru nukleární medicína. Praha: Galén, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7262-533-8.
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MYSLIVEČEK, Miroslav. Nukleární medicína. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2007. ISBN 978-80-244-1723-3.
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SEIDL, Zdeněk. Radiologie pro studium i praxi. Praha: Grada, 2012. ISBN 978-80-247-4108-6.
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SCHULTHESS, Gustav. Molecular Anatomic Imaging: PET/CT, PET/MR and SPECT CT. Zurich, Swizerland: Wolters Kluwer, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4511-9266-7.
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VLČEK, Petr. Praktická cvičení z nukleární medicíny. Praha: Karolinum, 2010. ISBN 978-80-246-1819-7.
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ŽIŽKA, J., J. TINTĚRA a M. MECHL. Protokoly MR zobrazování: pokročilé techniky. Praha: Galén, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7492-179-7.
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