2 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
This course is related to molecular imaging by SPECT (single-photon emission computed tomography) and/or PET (positron emission tomography). This course is particularly useful for graduate and senior undergraduate students in the medical physics programs. It has been offered to MP and HP graduate students over the last 4 years (2014-2018) as a part of the 3-credit molecular imaging course with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS: 1-credit) taught by Dr. Ulrike Dydak, computed tomography (CT: 1-credit) taught by Dr. Keith Stantz, and nuclear medicine (NM: 1-credit) taught by Dr. Shuang Liu. In the future, it will be expanded the "Nuclear Medicine" section as a 2-credit course on the basis on the previous lectures. This course focuses on recent development in nuclear medicine techniques for noninvasive imaging of brain diseases, cancer, and heart diseases. Students are expected to spend more time for homework and literature reading.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the basic concept of molecular imaging, techniques for isotope production, and the use of radiolabeled biomolecules (e.g. antibodies and small biomolecules) for diagnosis of brain diseases, cancer and heart diseases, and for target-specific radiotherapy with the receptor-based radiotracers.
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