STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      Review the basic concepts of the radiation detection process.

 II.     Define and identify the types, basic components, and operation of gas-filled radiation detectors.

 III.    Define and identify the types, basic components and operation of scintillation detection equipment.

 IV.     Calculate and analyze statistical count data acquired with radiation detection equipment.

 V.      Define and identify the types, basic components, and operation of nuclear medicine imaging equipment and relate that

 VI.     knowledge to the use of equipment during the Clinical Internship.

         A.      Planar Gamma Camera

         B.      SPECT Camera

         C.      PET Scanner

 VII.    Define and identify the use of computers in performing nuclear medicine imaging studies; and relate that knowledge to the use

 VIII.   of equipment during the Clinical Internship.

 IX.     Identify the types and uses of non-radiation related laboratory equipment used in nuclear medicine in-vitro procedures

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Radiation Detection Process

 II.     Radiation Detection Systems

         A.      Gas-filled Detectors

         B.      Scintillation Detectors

         C.      Radioactive Count Analysis

 III.    Nuclear Medicine Imaging Equipment

         A.      Planar Gamma Camera

         B.      SPECT Camera

         C.      PET Scanner

 IV.     Computers in Nuclear Medicine Imaging

         A.      Acquisition

         B.      Filtering

         C.      ROI`s & Curves

         D.      Cine Images

         E.      Reorientation

         F.      Quantified Gated Cardiac Studies

         G.      Image Production & Archiving

 V.      Non-radiation Related Laboratory Equipment