Principles of Nuclear Medicine
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein 1.1 Principles…
ENDOCRINOLOGY
Neuroendocrine Tumors (NET)
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania “As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness” A. Einstein 10.1…
Radiopharmaceuticals
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania “Primum non nocere” –First do not harm—Hippocrates 6.1 Introduction The use of specific radiotracers called…
The Radiation Protection
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Salus populi suprema lex esto. —Health of the people should be the supreme law—Marcus Tullius…
Specific Measurements, Units, and Terms
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. – Chinese proverb…
The Adrenal Glands
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania “If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred” Walt Whitman, (poet 1819–1892) 9.1 Overview…
SPECT/CT, PET/CT and PET/MR Principles
. In tomography, the voxel value in a transverse slice is reconstructed from different LORs passing through all the voxels of this slice. As a result, the noise in a…
Internal Dosimetry: Principles and Applications to NET
The SI unit for absorbed dose is joule per kilogram (J kg−1) and its special name is gray (Gy) [11]. In nuclear medicine represents the number of radionuclide disintegrations in…
Radionuclide Imaging of Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors
Frequent clinical features Secretion Management (first line) Stomach Mainly endoscopic discoverya Rare Depends on type (see text) Small intestine Often discovered on complication (obstruction, perforation, bleeding) Liver metastasis Carcinoid…
