PHYSICS AND INSTRUMENTATION IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE

FALL 2002 SYLLABUS (Ver: 8 Aug 2002)

September - December, 2002

Instructors:

Robert E. Zimmerman (REZ) Stephen C. Moore (SCM)

732-7196 732-6254

Ramsey D. Badawi (RDB) John Correia (MGH)

632-6892 726-8336

Daniel J. deVries (DJD) Georges El Fakhri (GEF)

732-6951 732-7142

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Hollenberg Conference Room, Thorn Research Building - 3rd Floor

WED 4 Sep SCM Introduction; Atomic Structure, pp. 1-13

FRI 6 Sep REZ Nuclear Structure, pp. 13-21

MON 9 Sep REZ Modes of Radioactive Decay, pp. 22-37

WED 11 Sep REZ Decay of Radioactivity, pp. 38-55

FRI 13 Sep SCM Prob. Set – Atomic and Nuclear Structure

MON 16 Sep Yom Kipper (no class)

WED 18 Sep GEF Radiation Detectors, pp. 56-83

FRI 20 Sep DJD Prob. Set – Radioactive Decay

MON 23 Sep DJD Electronic Instrumentation, pp. 84-112

WED 25 Sep SCM Survey meters, dose, exposure

FRI 27 Sep DJD Nuclear Counting Statistics, pp. 115-142

MON 30 Sep SCM Lab – all day, HP measurements and gas detectors (with GEF)

WED 2 Oct DJD Statistics (continued)

FRI 4 Oct DJD Prob. Set – Counting statistics

MON 7 Oct GEF Charged particle interactions, pp. 161-177

WED 9 Oct GEF Photon interactions, pp. 178-196

FRI 11 Oct GEF Prob. Set – Charged particle interactions

MON 14 Oct Columbus Day – no class

WED 16 Oct GEF Photon interactions cont., attenuation, HVL

FRI 18 Oct GEF Prob. Set – Photon interactions

MON 21 Oct REZ Pulse-height spectroscopy, pp. 219-237

WED 23 Oct REZ Detection and measurement, pp. 238-259

FRI 25 Oct DJD Prob. Set – Detectors

MON 28 Oct SCM Counting systems, pp. 261-297

WED 30 Oct REZ Gamma cameras pp. 298-360

FRI 1 Nov SCM Lab – all day, Planar gamma camera (with REZ)

MON 4 Nov REZ Gamma cameras (cont.), Collimators

WED 6 Nov GEF Review Math for Tomography

FRI 8 Nov REZ Prob. Set – Pulse-height spectroscopy

MON 11 Nov Veteran's Day (no class)

WED 13 Nov REZ Lab – all day, SPECT (with DJD)

FRI 15 Nov REZ Prob. Set – Anger camera

MON 18 Nov GEF Tomography, pp. 391-434

WED 20 Nov RDB PET Instrumentation

FRI 22 Nov GEF Tomography (cont.)

MON 25 Nov RDB PET Instrumentation (cont.)

WED 27 Nov GEF Prob. Set – Tomography

FRI 29 Nov Thanksgiving break

MON 2 Dec MGH PET

WED 4 Dec MGH PET

FRI 6 Dec MGH PET

MON 9 Dec MGH PET

WED 11 Dec RDB Lab – all day (1400-1900 hrs), PET (with REZ)

FRI 13 Dec RDB Preparation for Debate on PET-CT(to be presented 30Jan03)

MON 16 Dec REZ Quality control (handouts)

WED 18 Dec REZ FINAL EXAM

Fri 20 Dec REZ Exam review