Portal:Questions for Examination of Nuclear Medicine


 * Basic Science of Nuclear Medicine

 Basic physics - radioactive decay, interaction of radiation with matter Radiation biology - biological effects of ionising radiation, mechanisms, deterministic and stochastic effects  Radiation safety and protection - principles, guidelines for patients and for personnel Radiopharmaceuticals - definition, production, quality control, examples of clinical applications Nuclear medicine instrumentation - scintillation detector, scintillation (gamma) camera, non-imaging instruments Recording and processing of scintigraphic images - analogue and digital images, data acquisition, image processing in nuclear medicine Principles of emission tomography - SPECT - basic principles, radiopharmaceuticals, reconstruction techniques, examples of clinical applications Principles of emission tomography - PET - basic principles, radiopharmaceuticals, reconstruction techniques, examples of clinical applications</li> Diagnostic accuracy - sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, ROC curves, applications in clinical practice</li>

Clinical Nuclear Medicine Nuclear cardiology - myocardial perfusion imaging, radionuclide ventriculography, examination of shunts</li> Pulmonary system - lung perfusion scintigraphy, lung ventilation scintigraphy, intrathoracic infections and tumours</li> Central nervous system - brain perfusion study, receptor systems, cisternography, metabolic studies </li> Gastrointestinal system - gastric emtpying study, gastrointestinal bleeding study, gastroesophageal reflux, detection of Meckel's diverticulum, hepatobiliary study</li> Genitourinary system - examination of renal function (clearance studies), renal scintigraphy, radionuclide cystography</li> Skeletal system - bone scan (planar, SPECT), three (multiple) - phase bone imaging</li> Lymphatic and vascular system - lymphoscintigraphy, detection of sentinel nodes, radionuclide phlebography</li> Endocrine system - thyroid imaging, parathyroid imaging</li> Emergency nuclear medicine - cardiovascular system, urogenital system, gastrointestinal system, hepatobiliary system, central nervous system, musculoskeletal system, transplants</li> Imaging of inflammation - gallium scintigraphy, leukocyte scintigraphy, labelled antibodies, F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), inflammation processes in the bones</li> Tumour imaging - scintigraphy, tumour markers</li> Radionuclide therapy - malignant and bening thyroid diseases, palliative therapy of skeletal metastases, radionuclide synovectomy, tumour therapy</li> </li>