Description
(formerly NMT 130)
This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge of Nuclear Medicine Technology and Techniques. This will be presented in relationship to human anatomy and physiology. The course is intended to be a comprehensive study of imaging techniques in regard to diagnostic imaging agents and their interaction with human physiology. The organ responses to various radiopharmaceuticals will be identified. Normal and pathological responses will be demonstrated. The organ systems to be studied will include: the central nervous system, endocrine, respiratory and cardiovascular systems, the gastrointestinal, genitourinary, skeletal and hematopoietic systems. Radionuclide therapy will also be introduced. This course must be taken in the summer of year one in the major. Prerequisite: NMT 205.