BME 611 - Positron Emission Tomography

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a unique and powerful functional imaging method used in the clinic and in medical research. It is a multidisciplinary endeavor involving the fields of chemistry, physics, mathematics and medicine. This course addresses the disparate areas of science underlying PET imaging, including radioisotope production, radiotracer synthesis, the physics of the imaging process, quantitative data processing, image reconstruction approaches, data analysis, and tracer kinetic modeling to extract quantitative physiological parameters. Radioactive validation and applications of PET will also be covered including the area of drug addiction. There is a hands-on component in which students will visit an active PET research center and acquire and manipulate PET data.

3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)