LECTURE NOTES: 
RADIOPHARMACY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS

 By Stephen M. Karesh, Ph.D.

 Attention: Nuclear Medicine Technology Students and
Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Residents
preparing for Certification Examination!

We offer a very comprehensive set of Lecture Notes on Nuclear Medicine Basic Science. These notes contain information designed to help you pass your certification examination on the first try. They were first introduced almost 25 years ago and have undergone annual revision since then, most recently in March, 2011. The lecture notes are ~250 pages long and contain~ 1500 PowerPoint slides. Included are numerous “quiz” questions and practice problems to help clarify concepts.  The topics included in the lecture notes match the topics on the practice exam.
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LECTURE TOPICS

Ø       Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine

Ø      Completing Nuclear Equations

Ø      Radioactive Decay and Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter

Ø      Shielding Formula and Attenuation of radiation by Matter

Ø      Inverse Square Law

Ø      Units of Radioactivity

Ø      Mathematical Problem Solving

Ø      Statistics: Concepts and Problems

Ø      Equilibrium and Radionuclide Generators, Generator QC

Ø      Radioisotope Production

Ø      Basics of Radiopharmacy

Ø      The “Big Chart” of Every Clinically Useful Radiopharmaceutical

Ø      Radiopharmaceutical Preparation and Red Cell Labeling

Ø      PET Radiopharmaceuticals

Ø      Quality Control in the Hot Lab; Radiation Safety and Regulatory Issues

Ø      In Vivo Non-Imaging Studies

Ø      Mechanisms of Localization of Radiopharmaceuticals

Ø      Radionuclide Therapy

Ø      Radiation Dosimetry

Ø      Computers in Nuclear Medicine

Ø      Principles of Scintillation Detection

Ø      Image Processing

Ø      QC of Imaging Equipment

Ø      SPECT and PET Imaging

Ø      And other topics

What is NOT included:

Ø      Physiology

Ø      Patient Positioning

Ø      Procedures for Clinical Studies