Objectives For Week 7 - Renals, Brains, and SPECT
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Identify the different types of radiopharmaceuticals used in renal imaging and understand the associated physiology.
- Calcuate ERPF when GFR value is given.
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Understand the application of a ROIs and their association with time activity curves in a renograms.
- Explain how uptake in the kidney is evaluated over time using the RIOs.
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Discuss the basics components of SPECT in relationship to Filter Backprojection.
- What are the three projections seen in a processed SPECT scan.
- Define the blood brain barrier (BBB).
- Compare the radiopharmaceuticals that cross the BBB and those that do not (non-BBB).
- Apply radiopharmecuals used to image brain death (BBB and non-BBB).
- Identify the uses of: Ioflupane, FDG, Vizamyl in brain imaging.
Terms to know
- ROIs
- Time activity curve
- ERPF and GFR
- Back Projection
- Transverse, coronal, and sagittal
- Seive effect and BKG with non-BBB radiopharmaceuticals
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