LECTURE NOTES IN MEDICAL ENGINEERING

How Radioactive Tracers make Diagnostic Images

An Introduction to Emission Tomography

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Welcome back to Medical Engineering. So today we want to talk about nuclear medicine and functional imaging and in particular, we want to see how we can use tracers to create images of the metabolism inside the body. Therefore we will have a short excursion into the basics of radiation and how radiation can also be constructed into radioactive molecules and these molecules will be used in order to create the image contrasts here. So looking forward to introducing some nuclear medicine to you guys.