Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging: Didactic Courses
Several formal didactic courses are offered primarily for NM Fellows. These include the following:
A. Introduction to Nuclear Medicine. This course is currently presented on a 2 year cycle. Year 1 consists of required readings and didactic introductory lectures (see below); Year 2 consists of case-based material covering the same topics.
| PART 1 | CATEGORY | TOPIC/READING | FACULTY |
| Cardiovascular | Thrall Chapters 3, 5 | Corbett (Organizer) | |
| Cardiovascular 1 | Cardiac stress testing and EKG interpretation | Corbett | |
| Cardiovascular 2 | Tracers; Myocardial Perfusion 1 |
Corbett | |
| Cardiovascular 3 | Myocardial Perfusion 2; gating, attenuation correction | Corbett | |
| Cardiovascular 4 | Cardiac miscellaneous: shunt studies, infarct-avid, other | Corbett | |
| Cardiovascular 5 | PET studies of the heart | Corbett | |
| Cardiovascular EXAM | Corbett |
| PART 2 | CATEGORY | TOPIC/READING | FACULTY |
| Skeletal and Pulmonary | Thrall Chapters 6, 7 | Piert (Organizer) |
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| Skeletal 1 | Tracers; Clinical bone scintigraphy 1 | Piert | |
| Skeletal 2 | Clinical bone scintigraphy 2 | Piert | |
| Skeletal 3 | Skeletal PET, bone marrow imaging | Piert | |
| Skeletal 4 | Bone mineral density | Wong | |
| Pulmonary 1 | Tracers: Pulmonary scintigraphy 1 | Frey | |
| Pulmonary 2 | Pulmonary scintigraphy 2, Quantitative VQ, PET | Frey | |
| Skeletal and Pulmonary EXAM | Piert |
| PART 3 | CATEGORY | TOPIC/READING | FACULTY |
| Infection and Tumor | Thrall Chapters 8, 9 | Gross (Organizer) | |
| Tumor Imaging 1 | PET Tumor Imaging 1 –Basics | Dwamena | |
| Tumor Imaging 2 | PET Tumor Imaging 2 – PET/CT and cases | Piert | |
| Tumor Imaging 3 | Lymphoscintigraphy | Brown | |
| Tumor Imaging 4 | Radiolabeled Antibody Imaging | Dwamena | |
| Tumor Therapy | Radioimmunotherapy, Bone metastases, other | Dwamena | |
| Infection Imaging | Gallium/WBC/other | Gross | |
| Tumor and Infection EXAM | Fig |
| PART 4 | CATEGORY | TOPIC/READING | FACULTY |
| Hepatobiliary, GI and CNS | Thrall Chapters 10,11, 12 | Bohnen (Organizer) | |
| Hepatobiliary | Hepatobiliary and hepatic scintigraphy 1 | Brown | |
| GI 1 | Gastric emptying, reflux, esophageal transit | Fig | |
| GI 2 | Lower GI – Bleeding, transit | Brown | |
| CNS 1 | Cerebral perfusion/brain death | Frey | |
| CNS 2 | Brain PET | Frey | |
| CNS 3 | Cisternography | Frey | |
| Hepatobiliary, GI, CNS EXAM | Brown |
| PART 5 | CATEGORY | TOPIC/READING | FACULTY |
| Endocrine, Genitourinary | Thrall Chapters 13, 14 | Avram (Organizer) | |
| Endocrine 1 | Tracer, thyroid imaging and uptake | Avram | |
| Endocrine 2 | Graves’ disease and its treatment | Avram | |
| Endocrine 3 | Thyroid cancer and its treatment | Sisson | |
| Endocrine 4 | Adrenal and parathyroid imaging | Gross | |
| Genitourinary 1 | Tracers, diuretic renography, cystography | Brown | |
| Genitourinary 2 | Renovascular hypertension, testicular scintigraphy | Brown | |
| Endocrine and GU EXAM | Avram |
B. Basic Science in Nuclear Medicine. This annual course includes NRC required instruction in radionuclide handling, safety and regulation as well as basic aspects of radionuclide physics, isotope production, radiation detection and emission imaging. An advanced continuation of the course specifically for NM Fellows includes additional topics: radiobiology, management of radiation accidents, radioimmunoassay, determination of body composition, radiochemistry of radiotracers, tracer kinetics and distribution modeling, radiotracer dosimetry, advanced radionuclide imaging (tomography, scatter and attenuation correction, hybrid imaging) and statistics.
Recommended Reading Material
Introductory and background reading for NM Fellows is recommended from the following sources:
Ziessman HA, O’Malley, Thrall JH: Nuclear Medicine. The Requisites, 3rd Edition. St Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc.; 2005
Cherry SR, Sorenson JA, Phelps ME: Physics in Nuclear Medicine, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2003
Treves ST: Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PET, 3rd Edition. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC; 2007
UM Nuclear Cardiology House Officer Handbook (provided on first rotation)
Zaret BL, Beller GA: Nuclear Cardiology. State of the Art and Future Directions, 3rd Edition. St. Louis, MO: Mosby Inc. 2004
Oehr P, Biersak H-J, Coleman RE: PET and PET-CT in Oncology. London: Springer-Verlag; 2003
Valk PE, Bailey DL, Townsend DW, Maisey MN: Positron Emission Tomography. Basic Science and Clinical Practice. London: Springer-Verlag; 2003
