RAD 466 Clinical Practice in Nuclear 1/18/2022

Medicine Technology-2
Dr. Ahmed Alenezi

RAD 466
Clinical Practicum of Nuclear Medicine Technology
(Course Instructions)
Ahmed M. Alenezi, Ph.D., DABSNM
Assistant Professor
Radiation Safety Expert in Nuclear Medicine

“Radio-physics & scientific topics are

usually memorized shortly before
exams, & then quickly forgotten”

“Hearing is forgetting; seeing is

remembering; doing is understanding”

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RAD 466 Clinical Practice in Nuclear 1/18/2022
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Mission & vision of KSU

Mission:
To provide distinctive education, produce creative research,
serve society and contribute in building the knowledge
economy and community through learning, creative thinking
environment, the optimal use of technology and effective
international partnership.
Vision:
To be a world class university and a leader in building the
knowledge society.

• Distracting to class & hard to concentrate

• Disrespect the teacher
• Cellular phones must be turned off/or on a slient mode
during class (No text message issues).
• Taking pictures/selfies during the lecture is NOT allowed
• Taking screenshot or video is not allowed

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Outlines
• Course objectives
• Course description
• Students know about each other (you have to work in groups)
• Instructions for the course
• Suggested text books
• My expectations for your performance in class
• Type of exam questions & evaluation criteria
• Attendance
• Other Notes
• Philosophy of my teaching
• Assignment & evaluation criteria

Purposes of the Course

• To provide the necessary knowledge of advanced Nuclear
Medicine imaging techniques & applications
• To provide the necessary knowledge of advanced Nuclear
Medicine therapy techniques & applications
• To provide the necessary knowledge of advanced non-
imaging techniques in Nuclear Medicine
• To provide necessary skills of Radiation Safely to perform
the advanced Nuclear Medicine techniques
• To provide knowledge about : instrumentation,
reconstruction algorithms, image acquisition, image
processing, clinical applications/contraindications, patient
preparation, patient care, quality control,
radiopharmaceuticals, & image artefacts

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Topics to be covered
1. Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine Techniques (Two weeks)
2. PET/CT (Two weeks)
3. Radiation Safety aspects in Nuclear Medicine (One week)
4. Non-imaging techniques in Nuclear Medicine (One-Two week)
5. Advanced techniques in Nuclear Medicine (One week)
6. SPECT (myocardial Perfusion imaging) (One week)
7. Practical assignments (One week)
8. Oral Presentation (One-week)

Introduction
• Nuclear medicine is the field of medicine that uses
radioactive materials in the diagnosis and treatment of
disease. “ theranostics ”
• This includes the administration of the radiopharmaceuticals
to patients for the therapeutic and/or imaging of the
radiopharmaceutical distribution in an organ of interest
within the patient.
• The practice of Nuclear Medicine technology encompasses
multidisciplinary skills.
• NM staff must complete didactic & clinical training

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Certification Board of NM
Graduates of NM programs are eligible to take the
certification examination offered by:
1- NMTCB & NMTCB(PET)
2- ARRT(N)
3-CAMRT(RTNM)
New: Post-Primary :
1) Radiation Safety Credential – the NMTCB(RS) Certification
2) Computed Tomography (CT) Credential = NMTCB(CT)

In UK
1-Clinical Technologist in Nuclear Medicine
Or
2-Clinical Scientist

Certification Board of NM
Clinical

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Certification Board of NM
Science Nuclear Pharmacy

Medical Physics

Radiation Protection

Multimodality Imaging Systems

Medical imaging is about to change from stand-alone towards
multimodality imaging

Hybrid:
•SPECT-CT
•PET-CT
•PET-MRI
•MRI-Linac
Tri-modality:
•SPECT-CT-PET
•PET-CT + MRI

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Hybrid imaging
Technologists for both specialties recommended that additional advanced
education is needed to perform SPECT/CT, PET/MR, PET/CT,
SPECT/US, PET/US

Suggested text books

Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Technology and Techniques
Authors:
Kristen Waterstram-Rich
David Gilmore

8th edition
2017

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Suggested text books

Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: Terminology and Technical Aspects.

Author:
Elpida S. Crawford

2nd edition, 2011

Publisher: Society of Nuclear Medicine

Recommended text books

Nuclear Medicine Physics, a handbook for teachers and Students, International
atomic energy agency, Technical Edition.

Authors:
D.L. Bailey, J.L. Humm, A.
Todd-Pokropek, A. van Aswegen

IAEA Publication: 2014

1st edition

Free PDF file is available:

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1617web-1294055.pdf 16

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Suggested text books

Nuclear Medicine Technology: Procedures and Quick Reference
Author: Pete Shackett

2nd edition

2008

Suggested text books

Nuclear Medicine Therapy

Authors:
Janet F. Eary
Winfried Brenner

2007

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Types of Exams Questions & evaluation process

Midterm exams & Final Exam consist of:
1-MCQ :(Number of questions =10-15) Marks = 45-55
2-Short answer: (Number of questions = 8-10), Marks = 45-55
3-Image analysis questions:(Number of questions =1-2),Marks =5-10
Marks distribution:
• 20 % for 1st Mid term exam
• 20 % for 2nd Mid term exam
• 40 % for Final exam
• 10 % for two assignments (Oral presentation, or case study/or report)
• 5 % for class assignment (quizzes or assignment problem calculation)
• 5 % for Lab assignment/evaluation in clinical images/Simulated
procedures

Marks/grades criteria
•Cumulative course averages will NOT be rounded
either up or down to the nearest percentage point
•Exams, regardless of the format, will NOT be
curved or dropped from the student’s overall grade.

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Exams Dates
• Mid-term exams:
1st Mid term exam (date: 5th - 7th week)
2nd Mid term exam (date: 10th - 11th week)

• Oral presentation & assignment

The finished assignment will be handed to me by week 12
The oral presentations will be scheduled on week 12 or 13 (10
minutes for each student)

• Final Exam: will be announced

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Course details & Clinical attachment

Lectures:
Day: Tuesday
• Lecture (1) started at 08:00 am & finished 08:50
• Lecture (2) started at 09:00 am & finished 09:50

Clinical attachment:
Day: will be arranged with KKUH or Radiology lab in the
college

Practical assignment:
Day: Monday
During class time

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Attendance
A student who comes within 15 minutes from the beginning of class is considered late

Other Notes
• Non registered students are not allowed to attend this course
• Students in the list are only allowed to attend this course
• Student is not allowed to be absent of more than 25% of
the total lectures
• To receive credit for the assignment work, student should
hand in all assignments to the instructor in person, in class,
on time on the due date (except in cases of emergency). If
the assignment is turned in late, ten points will be
deducted.
• Students are asked to act with utmost consideration for
others and to maintain a high-quality learning environment.
Unrelated talking and chatter during class, as well as any
activity that distracts from the learning environment, are
inappropriate.

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Philosophy of my teaching
• I do like the words “ Educator ” instead of “ Lecturer or
teacher ”, because education process is based on an interaction
process
• I always try to prepare the lecture contents in a consistent
manner and should contains all the state-of-art knowledge
• I strongly believe that I should deliver a high quality and updated
lecture contents and prepare student to be a professional
practitioner rather than a good listener.
• It is critical to see my students are graduated with a better/or the same
standards that I hold myself and made my students to feel that their
input is very important and one day they will be my colleagues
• Give students the opportunity to present their skills in an assignment
that emphasizes the skills of giving and effective oral presentation

‫حقوق وواجبات االستاذ والطالب الجامعي‬

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