In diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine radioactive substances are applied to the patient. For a certain period of time after application a patients thus effectively represents a source of ionising radiation. Due to the specific circumstances a patient can not be handled in the same manner as other radioactive sources. In the lecture various irradiation pathways based on the patient as a source and the related risks have been presented.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 23501095Ionizing radiation in nuclear medicine is used to mark selected biomolecules, whose spatial distribution can assist us in diagnosis and staging of certain diseases. The knowledge of basic principles of radiation detection is hence key in development and improvement of imaging methods as well as in interpretation of collected images. The lecture provided basic physical insight into detection process, its statistical properties, electronics used to handle raw data and geometry of devices used in nuclear medical imaging.
B.04 Guest lecture