The spread of diagnostic techniques, as PET and SPECT, has contributed
in the last years to the growth of the individual dose due to medical
exposures. The MADEIRA project
(Minimizing Activity and Dose with Enhanced Image quality by
Radiopharmaceutical Administrations), co-funded by the European
Commission
within the Seventh Euratom Framework Programme,
aims to reduce the exposure of the patient to radiation in nuclear
medicine, through the improvement of the imaging process.
This training course on radiation physics for nuclear medicine is the
first of a series of three courses organized in the frame of the
training and dissemination activities of the MADEIRA project. The course
will deal with
fundamental aspects and current research trends in radiation physics,
detector technology and medical imaging from the point of view of
nuclear medicine applications. Specific topics of the course will
include:
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Interaction between
radiation and matter
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Radiation transport with Monte Carlo analysis
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Production and quality control of radiopharmaceuticals
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Radiation
detectors for nuclear medicine
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Reconstruction
algorithms in medical imaging
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Biokinetic modelling and voxel phantoms for internal dosimetry