Nuclear Medicine Physics

Category 2: PET, PET-CT and Other Hybrids

• Radionuclide production and characteristics.
• QC procedures, including ACR/TJC/NEMA and acceptance testing, artifacts
• System principles, image fusion, random coincidences, scattered radiation, dead-time.
• Quantitative PET, including SUV.
• Image reconstruction, including attenuation correction, iterative reconstruction, filtered back projection.