This subject supports a student to develop a deep understanding of the principles associated with the imaging technology employed in conventional Nuclear Medicine; including relevant physics, electronics, counting statistics, pulse-height spectrometry and image quality. Students explore the physics and instrumentation of the gamma camera, SPECT and PET; including hybrid and pre-clinical technology. Nuclear Medicine computer hardware and software, associated hardware, computer operating systems and language, Nuclear Medicine computer graphics, image acquisition data analysis and image reconstruction are all explored in detail.
HD/FL
One session
School of Dentistry and Health Sciences
Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging)
PHY115 Physics for Medical Radiation Science
MRS121 Introduction to Medical Radiation Science
MRS323
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