Objectives For Week 7 - Renals, Brains, and SPECT

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

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