ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 45 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 13 Interactive Classroom: 15 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master鈥檚 Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: External department linked to the degrees, Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: 脕rea externa M.U en Neurociencia (2陋 ed), Radiology and Physical Medicine
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- The modern concept of molecular imaging with raiotracers in neurology
- The physical, biological and radiopharmaceutical basis
- Radiation Protection and Dosimetry
- The main clinical applications of SPECT and PET in neurology
- Image fusion
- The development of new radiotracers
- Experimental molecular imaging
(SPECT: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography)
(PET: Positron Emission Tomography)
It is complemented with the Image Analysis part (Prof. J. Pereira. UDC)
FIRST PART: BASIS
1. - Introduction: Modern Nuclear Medicine.
2. - Physical principles of PET and SPCET.
3.-Radiation Protection in Nuclear Medicine. Comparison with other imaging techniques.
4. 鈥 Imaging quantification and fusion.
SECOND PART: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF SPECT
1.- Dopamine Receptors
2.- Perfusion-Glucose metabolism and the central nervous system
3.- New PET Radiotracers
4.- Molecular imaging and radiotherapy
5.- Molecular and multimodal image: a new diagnostic dimension
6.- micro-SPECT and micro-PET
7.- The cyclotron
THIRD PART: KNOWLEDGE OF FACILITIES
a) Nuclear Medicine Service Visit
b) Cyclotron and Radiopharmacy Unit Visit
c) SEMINAR: Possibility of collaborative studies, Research seminars and Thesis.
DIGITAL NEUROIMAGING
Fundamentals of digital imaging
- The digital image. Fundamentals and information coding. Graphic formats of digital imaging. General and specific formats Formats in neuroscience.
Digital imaging modalities in neuroscience
. - Origin and sources for generating images in neuroscience. Medical Imaging. Conventional radiology, CT, MRI, nuclear image.
- Based on the standardization of medical imaging. The DICOM format. Origin and foundations.
. - Free Application for commercial distribution and DICOM image. Merging modalities. Anatomical and functional image. current Trends
Analysis and image processing in neuroscience
- Theoretical principles of digital image processing. Basic and advanced processing in neuroscience. Main segmentation algorithms. Examples of application.
Practice
Practice. Basic management of medical imaging. Acquisition, format conversion, resolution changes, selection of sections of interest.
Practice. Management sample applications DICOM.Osiris images, JDICOM, EFilm
Practice. Search Internet resources of interest. Databases, bibliographic, freeware applications, etc.
We will provide to students with the most recent literature and appropriate for different subjects, mainly through reprints
The student will:
- Identify and distinguish the different imaging processes
- Their clinical indications
- Scans dosimetry and its relationship to other imaging techniques
- know research projects
- The development of new radiotracers
It consists of:
1. - Theory: present the different topics
2. - Practice: includes visit to the Nuclear Medicine Department (CHUS) and cyclotron and experimental molecular imaging unit.
Attendance: 80% hours
Working on a free topic, but related to the subject.
It is related to the discussed topics, provided literature and the development of a project.
Attend classes and reading the suggested literature.